Walter Vernon Sheldrake

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270467

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

November 4th, 1918

Cemetery:

Brookwood Military Cemetery - Surrey, England, United Kingdom - III.F.II

Commemorated at:

St. Jude's Anglican Church, I.O.O.F. Memorial Tablet and Obelisk Harmony Lodge

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Oxford

Birth city:

Ontario

Address at enlistment:

50 Balfour Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

50 Balfour Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Cause and Place of Casualty: Died (Not stated). Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, S.W. Cause of Death now ascertained to be – “Influenza and Double Pneumonia.”

BX November 9, 1918

Many friends in the city will regret to hear that word has been received by his wife of the death of Private Walter Vernon Sheldrake, at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Grosvenor Road, London, Eng., on November 4, 1918. He leaves to mourn his sad loss a sorrowing wife and one daughter, Myrtle, his mother and father, 197 Brock Street, two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Dick, 267 Nelson Street, Mrs. J. Schmitz, 246 Sheridan Street, and one brother, Roy 22 Fleet Street.