Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight - Belgium : Ypres area : Cemetery CWGC : Walter Henry Appel

Location

In Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : XXV. C. 5A.

Headstone

Inscription

42498 GUNNER
W.H. APPEL
ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
5TH OCTOBER 1917 AGED 21
†

Further Information

Walter Henry Appel

Son of George Henry Appel and Emily Louisa Appel (née Sheaf), of Shanklin, Isle of Wight.

Born : 1895, Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Census Information :

1901 : With his grandparents Aaron and Amelia Sheaf, at 3 Coppins Bridge, Newport, Isle of Wight. Aaron Sheaf is a Fisherman.

1911 : At the Church Army Labour House, Watling Street, aged 17. Occupation - Fish Monger.

CWGC record ...

Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 01
Newport Borough War Memorial WW I Panel 1

Documents and Newspaper cuttings

Isle of Wight County Press, 20 Oct 1917
KILLED IN ACTION ETC.

APPEL - Oct. 5, died of wounds, Gr. W.H. Appel, R.G.A., second son of G.H. Appel, East Cowes, (formerly of Newport), aged 22.

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