NIGHTINGALE Walter

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
  • Surname:
    NIGHTINGALE
  • Service Number:
    24907
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    13th July 1916
  • Age At Death:
    31
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, Grave II. B. 11.
  • Place of Birth:
    Darlaston, Staffordshire, resident Stourbridge, Worcestershire, enlisted Ft. Tregantle, Cornwall
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Sarah Nightingale, 56 High St., Wollaston, Stourbridge, and the late James Nightingale

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

NIGHTINGALE Walter Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge Our Lady and All Saints Roman Catholic Church
Stourbridge War Memorial
Wollaston St James’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Stourbridge Our Lady and All Saints Roman Catholic Church with the additional information: 5th Wor’strs 12 July 1915.

Further Information About NIGHTINGALE Walter

Walter Nightingale was the elder son of Mrs Nightingale of 61 High Street, Wollaston. He had been a steam hammer driver before the Great War and a member of the Stourbridge Volunteers at the age of 16.  Walter enlisted as a Territorial in the Worcesters in 1914 and then transferred to the Regular Army in May 1915.  He was posted to the 9th Battalion on 26th April 1916.  He joined them in Mesopotamia but within 6 weeks was in a military hospital at Amara.  He died of an illness on the 13th July.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.