Medals

11. Cpl. Walter Charlton

Name	Walter Ernest Charlton
Service number	59423 & (4-435-777 ?)
Rank – including any promotions, with dates	Acting Corporal
Regiment	Durham Light Infantry
Battalion	Training Reserve Battalion 1917
Unit
Postings	Home 9/12/1915 – 3/12/1917 France 4/12/1917 – 9/08/1918 Home 10/08/1918 – 29/10/1920
Wounds	Gun shot wound right leg and compound fracture femur; 24/03/1918 – hospitalised Rouen, France
Silver War Badge? (WWI)
PoW Info. Etc.
Date of Discharge	20/10/1920 – no longer physically fit
Other Information	70% disability

Birthplace	Bishop Auckland
Date of birth	28 February 1895
Enlisted	09/12/1915
Lived	21 Bouch Street, New Sheldon
Parents	William and Harriet Charlton
+ address	17 Linden Road, Bishop Auckland
Wife	Cora Scott married 1915; 2nd wife Ada Barron married 1939
+ address
Children	Ernest 1915; Eva 1918; Derek 1935; Sheila 1939
Occupation	Washer man

Medals – held in

collection

Citations

1914/18 Victory Medal

Medals – others awarded but

not held in collection

Victory Medal and British War Medal

Citations/Notes

From attestation papers:

National Health Society = Sheffield Equalised Druids

Last employer – Pease and Partners, Eldon Colliery, job – Engineman

How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action
Date of death	1965
Age	71 – living at 17 Linden Road, Bishop Auckland ( parents home)
Memorial
Cemetery – plot, row and grave

1939 Register – listed as disabled soldier listed as unemployed