HARRIS Walter Stephen

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
    Stephen 
  • Surname:
    HARRIS
  • Service Number:
    663710
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Central Ontario Regiment
  • Battalion:
    54th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th September 1918
  • Age At Death:
    39
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Quarry Wood Cemetery, France, Grave II. C. 3.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Husband of Ida Florence Harris, of 32 Offmoor, Halesowen, Worcestershire, England

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

HARRIS Walter Stephen Is Named On These Memorials

Halesowen War Memorial
Stourbridge Old Swinford Hospital School

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Stourbridge Old Swinford Hospital School with the information: Canadian Infantry. Killed in action 27 September 1918. Age 39.

Further Information About HARRIS Walter Stephen

Walter Harris was born on 26th December 1878. He entered Old Swinford Hospital on 14th June 1887 and left the school on 22nd February 1893 when he was apprenticed to Mr W. Hughes, Printer of Halesowen.

Source for additional information: Old Foleyans Remembered Casualties of WW1 published by the Old Foleyans Association, October 1998.

Walter Stephen Harris aged 27 married Ida Florence Brown aged 25 in Canada when both were resident in Toronto. The couple had at least two daughters, Minnie born in 1907 and Irene born in 1909.

Walter Harris enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 3rd May 1916 at Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. On his attestation paper he gave his date of birth as 26th December 1880, his place of birth as Worcestershire, England and his profession as a journalist. His next of kin was his wife, Ida Florence Harris of 181 Davisville Avenue, Toronto. This was later amended to c/o Mrs J. Snider, Woodbridge P.O., Ontario. Benjamin was 5 feet 11 inches tall with brown eyes, black hair and a dark complexion.

Walter sailed with his unit from Hailfax, Canada on the S.S. Carpathia on the 11th April 1917 arriving in England on the 22nd April 1917. On the 22nd May he was appointed Acting Battery Quarter Master Sergeant and then to Acting Sergeant on the 5th June 1917. Walter reverted back to the rank of Private on the 12th October 1917 for being Absent Without Leave. He was killed in action on the 27th September 1918.

National Archives of Canada Reference: RG150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4097 – 56

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