GOULD, Walter Henry

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, UKCredit: Gary Newman

Private
H Company
Royal Marne Light Infantry

Walter was born 1886 in Newport to James Richard & Mary (nee GILBERT) GOULD. In 1901 the family lived at 11 Hunnyhill in Newport. In 1915 at Bicester, Oxfordshire he married Mary HARRIS who shortly after his death, remarried & became Mary MITCHELL & living with her new husband at The Retreat Inn, Primrose Hill in Bath.

Walter, aged 29, died on the 31st of October 1918 at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, Gosport in Hampshire from pneumonia. He is buried at the Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery beneath an Admiralty Bronze Plaque alongside over 1,300 First & Second World War casualties.  

Walter is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.