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Robert Thomas Walmsley

Information about birth

Date of birth:
30/11/1891
Place of birth:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

General information

Profession:
Shipping Clerk

Army information

Country:
England, United Kingdom
Force:
British Expeditionary Force
Rank:
Gunner
Service number:
796396
Enlistment place:
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Units:
 —  Royal Field Artillery, "C" Bty. 246th Bde.  (Last known unit)

Information about death

Date of death:
20/09/1917
Place of death:
Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, Belgium
Cause of death:
Died of wounds (D.O.W.)
Age:
25

Cemetery

Duhallow A.D.S. cemetery
Plot: x
Row: /
Grave: 34

Distinctions and medals 2

Points of interest 2

#1 Place of birth
#2 Enlistment place

My story

Robert Thomas Walmsley was born in Liverpool, Lancashire in 1894. He worked as a shipping clerk, prior to enlisting in the army. Robert served in “C” Battery of the 246th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, of the 49th (West Riding) Division.

After having been stationed in Nieuwpoort, on the Belgian coast, Robert’s Brigade moved to the area south of Ypres, to participate in the Battle of Passchendaele.

On 12 September 1917 all Batteries of the 246th Brigade went into action at the hamlet of Vierstraat, on the Ypres–Kemmel road. The guns of the Brigade had been quickly discovered by the German artillery, as they were shelled on both 16 and 18 September.

On the 20th of September the Brigade was part of the artillery support for the 19th Division, which attacked along the Ypres-Comines Canal.

Gunner Robert Thomas Walmsley, 25, was mortally wounded. He died of his wounds on 20 September 1917 at the Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, just north of Ypres. He was buried in the adjacent Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery.

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