Furness Walter Albert Private 44891

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Surname: Furness;

Forename(s): Walter Albert;

Initials: WA;

Number: 44891;

Rank: Private;

Enlisted in: Barrow-in-Furness;

Enlistment Date: 19-Nov-1915;

Resided in: Barrow;

Previous Number: 3699;

Previous Battalion: 4 of;

Previous Regiment: R Lanc Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 25-Jul-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 103 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 103 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 34 Bn;

Date abroad: 27-Aug-1916;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: D;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 13-Nov-1918;

Other Data: b 1896
WO363(FMP)
"C" Coy, posted missing, Red X lists Mar 1918
POW Germany 213/1918 Ecoust
ICRC Ref: ????
War Office Casualty List 14/5/1918 (posted missing)
War Office Casualty List 5/11/1918 (known to be POW)
17 Buccleuch St, Barrow-in-Furness
NB: Originally buried in Boneffe Churchyard, nr Brussels and reburied at Heverlee War Cemetery on 5/3/1953. Almost certainly a POW who died during the last days of the war. No ICRC records traced;

Other Notes: FURNESS, Private, W A, 44891. 34th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 13th November 1918. XI. C. 2. Heverlee War Cemetery - Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.
NOK: father - John Abbott Furness, 17 Buccleuth St, Barrow-in-Furness
NB: 34 BN, not Coy;

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