Private 19061 Walter SEWARD

Private 19061 Walter Seward{gallery}Pte W Seward{/gallery}6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
Killed in action in the Second Battle of Kut, Iraq, Mesopotamia, 25th February 1917

• Commemorated: Basra Memorial, Basra, Iraq. Panel 23
  
• Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Charles and Jane Seward
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Chilvers Coton Boys School | Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Seward
• Basra Memorial
• South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1896 at Nuneaton and baptised 26 Aug 1896 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Hinckley
• Attended Chilvers Coton Boys School
  
• Lived at 59 Bermuda, Chilvers Coton [1901]
• Lived at 38 Fitton Street, Chilvers Coton [1911]
  
• Employed as an errand boy for a boot shop dealer [1911]
• Employed as a miner [1915]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton 4 May 1915. Arrived in the Balkans 24 Nov 1915