HOARE Walter John Gerald

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
    John 
    Gerald 
  • Surname:
    HOARE
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
  • Battalion:
    11th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    25th October 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Courcelette British Cemetery, France, Grave I. C. 16.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Husband of Alix V.C. Hoare, 33 Belgrave Square, London S.W.1.

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HOARE Walter John Gerald Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: D.S.O. Capt.

Further Information About HOARE Walter John Gerald

Awarded DSO (Distinguished Service Order).

Walter Hoare attended Bromsgrove School from 1902 to 1905. Having already been mentioned in Despatches he was awarded the DSO; with two sergeants, one of whom was wounded by the intense shell fire, he dug out a buried sergeant and rescued alive. He was on the Stock Exchange when the war began and after eight months training he went to France with his battalion in July 1915 having received his Captaincy in June. He had been married in January 1915.

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

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