| Private Walter Talbot, 12638, 'D'
Company, 7th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, died on
13th May 1915. Private Talbot was the son of Walter
and Elizabeth Talbot of 2 Church Road, Brandon,
Suffolk.
He is remembered
with honour at Loos Memorial, panels 30 to 31.
This was reported by the Thetford
and Watton Times, dated October 23rd
1915 ...
REPORTED KILLED
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An indirect report has reached
Brandon to the effect that Private
Walter Talbot, of the 7th
Norfolks, has been killed in
action. The information was
contained in a letter from Corporal
Henry Wharf to his mother, who
resides in Brandon. Corporal
Wharf is himself in hospital
suffering from wounds, and he states
that several of the Norfolks were
brought in to the hospital wounded
since he has been there, while he had
heard that Walter Talbot was
killed. Although Mrs Talbot has
received no official or other
confirmation of the news at present,
the fact that her son’s usual
letters have recently ceased leads
her to fear the information is
unfortunately accurate. Private
Talbot, who was 21 last April, and is
the son of the landlord of the Duke
of Wellington, enlisted in the first
month of war, and left Brandon with a
number of his pals on August 25th,
1914.
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