Lance Corporal Walter Richard Bedding

Army Number : 202848

Battalion : 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at London. Son of Walter and Emmeline Bedding; Husband of Alice Ethel Bedding, of 17, Cavendish Mansions, Clapton Square, Clapton, London. He was a clerk prior to enlisting 11th December 1915 at Hackney, London. He went to France 26th February 1917, was appointed Lance Corporal, 16th April 1917, and was killed in action, 4th May 1917, age 38, in the attack on the German line at Cologne and Malakoff Farms, France.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.