Name William Ernest Walker
Regiment 14th Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 89419
Military Cemetery/Memorial Montay- Neuvilly Road Cemetery Montay
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial II.D 20
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Died aged 21 5th November 1918
Biographical Details Known We have only managed to find him on the 1901 census. He was 14 years old and was living at 12 Health street, Shotton. He had been born in Sandycroft. The head of the household was his Aunt Fanny Price who was a 35 year old widow born in Staffordshire. She had two young children Thomas George Price who was 2 and Mary Edith Price who was 6 months. Both of these children were born in Mold.
Living with her was her 77 year old father William Walker who came from Shropshire and her brother Samuel Ernest Walker a 28 year old shoemaker from Sandycroft.
There were three lodgers or boarders. Two of them were from Belfast and they were vulcanite manufacturers and the third was a galvaniser from London.
There is no explanation of William Ernest's parentage.
Poor Fanny Price had an awful lot of people depending on her. Her life must have been hard.
On William Ernest's Commonwealth War Grave Certificate it states that he was the
'Son of Fanny Price of 17 Garden Place, Mold.'
He enlisted in the army in Shotton.
Regiment 14th Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Service Rank and Number Private 89419
Military Cemetery/Memorial Montay- Neuvilly Road Cemetery Montay
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial II.D 20
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded Victory and British War medals
Date and Circumstances of Death Died aged 21 5th November 1918
Biographical Details Known We have only managed to find him on the 1901 census. He was 14 years old and was living at 12 Health street, Shotton. He had been born in Sandycroft. The head of the household was his Aunt Fanny Price who was a 35 year old widow born in Staffordshire. She had two young children Thomas George Price who was 2 and Mary Edith Price who was 6 months. Both of these children were born in Mold.
Living with her was her 77 year old father William Walker who came from Shropshire and her brother Samuel Ernest Walker a 28 year old shoemaker from Sandycroft.
There were three lodgers or boarders. Two of them were from Belfast and they were vulcanite manufacturers and the third was a galvaniser from London.
There is no explanation of William Ernest's parentage.
Poor Fanny Price had an awful lot of people depending on her. Her life must have been hard.
On William Ernest's Commonwealth War Grave Certificate it states that he was the
'Son of Fanny Price of 17 Garden Place, Mold.'
He enlisted in the army in Shotton.
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