SMITHERS, Walter

Vis-en-Artois Memorial FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
8th Battalion
Berkshire Regiment

Walter was born 1900 in Newport to George & Catherine (nee TEWKESBURY) SMITHERS.

Walter, aged 18, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed on the 23rd September 1918 & is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France with 9,822 of his comrades who fell in the period from 8th August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy & Artois, between the Somme & Loos, & who have no known grave.

The Memorial consists of a screen wall in three parts. The middle part of the screen wall is concave & carries stone panels on which names are carved. It is 26 feet high flanked by pylons 70 feet high.

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.