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Walter NUTBEAM (born Winchester 1886), Private 7982 (enlisted Winchester 28 Oct 1905) 1st battalion, Dosetshire regiment was killed on October 12th 1914 aged 28, his brother Albert, who was in the same regiment buried him where he lay (Anyway that was what I was told), so his body was not given a proper burial and it is still there in France.
The military record is one of those that has been lost in WW2, and the Keep Museum Dorset can only confirm that he was killed on the Pont-Fixe-Le Planatain Rd between Bethune and La Basse. Any information on where the regiment was from 1905 to 1914? Or any other info?
I have information on where he was born mother, father, marriage, census returns etc
Illustrator.
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Is this him? (From Soldiers who died in the Great War)
Medal card also exists - try National Archives or Ancestry
Not sure why "theatre of war" is Aldershot. I've seen this before though for men who have died in Europe/Belgium
Name: Walter Nutbeam
Birth Place: Mawrases, Winchester, Hants
Residence: Gosport, Hants
Death Date: 12 Oct 1914
Enlistment Location: Landport, Hants
Rank: Private
Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion: 1st Battalion.
Number: 7982
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theater of War: Aldershot
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His name is on Le Touret memorial http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14
Sylviaann
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Hi.
Thanks for that reply Richard that is he. Its odd that Aldershot thing as he is on the Pont Fix diary casualty list and is as Sylviaann says his name is on the Le Touret and the Portsmouth memorial list of the dead.
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Hello Illustrator,
Ancestry have their own version of SDGW >:(
Born; Mawreses
Enlisted; Gosport
Residence; Landport
Theatre; France and Flanders
Phil