Location
In Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Description
Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : VIII. E. 12.
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Headstone
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Inscription
SECOND LIEUTENANT
O R WALFORD
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
26TH APRIL 1915 AGE 19
†
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
Further Information
Oliver Robson Walford
Son of William Swordes Walford and Mary Ella Walford (née Watson), of Totland, Isle of Wight.
Born : 25 June 1895, Weymouth, Dorset.
Census Information :
1901 : William Walford, a widower, with his children including Oliver aged 5, are at 3 Warden Lodge, Totland, Isle of Wight. William Walford is a Colonel
in the Royal Artillery.
1911 : Oliver Walford, aged 15, is a pupil at the private school run by Reginald Kirby Cardew, at St Miniver, East Liss, Hampshire.
CWGC record ...
Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :
Totland War Memorial
Totland Christ Church War Memorial
Freshwater War Memorial
Documents and Newspaper cuttings
de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
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