YAPP Walter Harold

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
    Harold 
  • Surname:
    YAPP
  • Service Number:
    17170
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    North Staffordshire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    5th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th March 1918
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France, Grave II. L. 17.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Walter Henry and Alice Edith Yapp, of New Rd., Kempsey, Worcestershire

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YAPP Walter Harold Is Named On These Memorials

Kempsey St Mary’s Church

Further Information About YAPP Walter Harold

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

A photograph of Private W.H. Yapp of Kempsey can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 11th May 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.

The following information has been researched by Dave Pugh:
The 1911 Census shows that the Yapp family were living at Smethwick, Birmingham. Walter aged 15, was working as an errand boy. His father was working as a packer at a jam factory. There were also sisters Elsie 11, Gwendoline 8, and brother Reginald 6.

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