Lance Corporal 7218 Arthur WALTON

3rd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Died of Illness, Monday 5th June 1916, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Age 31

Home address:

31 Union Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Born:

1885, Hyde, Cheshire

Parents:

Jane Walton
31 Union Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Single

Occupation:

Greengrocer

Enlisted:

Hyde, Cheshire

Remembered:

Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gee Cross, Cheshire, plot north 19, grave 791.

Link to Hyde:

Born in Hyde

From the Manchester Evening News, 2nd June 1916, page 4, column 5:

Death From Shell Shock
The death has occurred at Macclesfield of Lance-corporal Arthur Walton, formerly of the Shropshire Light Infantry, after a serious illness brought on by shell shock. His home was 31, Union Street, Hyde, and he was thirteen years in the Army, and was called up as a reservist when war broke out. He was discharged as time expired on February 11. He was a greengrocer at Shudehill market, Manchester.

Discharged from the military 11th February 1916 at Pembroke Dock, Wales.