Wallace William Wynn
Memorial: Chipping Sodbury Town Cross - Broad Street
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Serjeant 53337
Parents: William and Susan Wynn
Home address: Chapel Lane, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
Date of birth: 1890
Place of birth: Stroud, Glos
Date of death: 28/10/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Chipping Sodbury parish church, churchyard extension. Plot E.83.
Age: 26
Further information:
Repatriated to a Military Hospital at Whalley in Lancashire, he died in transit. Serjeant Wynn was afforded Chipping Sodbury’s only Military Funeral of the 1914-1918 war, on November 2nd 1916 at the Town Hall, Chipping Sodbury, followed by a service at St. John’s, Chipping Sodbury. Sergeant Wynn had been one of the bell-ringers at St John’s but now on his last return, it was indeed for him that the bell was tolling. His coffin was placed on a horse-drawn carriage, which is pictured awaiting him outside the Town Hall. The grave is in the churchyard extension, his headstone there gives, still just legibly, his parents’ last message
Listed as "Wounded" on the Casualty List issued by the War Office. Serjeant Wynn was entitled to wear a "Wound Stripe" as authorised under Army Order 204 of 6th July 1916
Wallace William Wynn is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Chipping Sodbury
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre and Forces War Records