FOX Walter Henry

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
    Henry 
  • Surname:
    FOX
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    South Staffordshire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    4th Battalion
  • Unit:
    Attached 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    16th June 1915
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France, Panel 21 and 22
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Emily Fox, of Woodlands, Walsall, Staffordshire and the late Dr. G. Martin Fox

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FOX Walter Henry Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Further Information About FOX Walter Henry

Additional information on the memorial: Second- Lieut.

Walter Fox attended Bromsgrove School from 1910 to 1913.  He was in the school XI. Fox had been with his regiment in Jersey since the beginning of the War and had been transferred to the 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment.  He was killed the day after arriving at the Front.  He will be remembered as a stalwart bowler for the 1st XI.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

Bond of Sacrifice:
Lieutenant Walter Henry Fox, 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. South Staffordshire Regiment, attd 2nd Battn.  The Bedfordshire Regt., was the elder son of Dr. and Mrs. G Martin Fox, Walsall, and was born on the 30th November 1895.  He was educated at St Ninian’s, Moffat, and at Bromsgrove School, where he was in the O.T.C., and received his colours for the Cricket XI and the Football XV.  He afterwards played in the Walsall Cricket Team.  He was an enthusiastic golfer and won a number of prizes.

In August, 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion South Staffordshire regiment, becoming Lieutenant in April 195.  For active service he was attached to the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.  Lieutenant Fox was killed in action at Givenchy, in France, on the 16th June, 1915.  He was standing in a trench talking to another officer when a shell killed them both instantaneously.

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