Walter Stinchcombe
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 8957
Parents: Morgan and Alice Jane Stinchcombe (nee Fry)
Home address: Hawkesbury Upton, Badminton, Glos
Date of birth: 1888
Place of birth: Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Date of death: 07/11/1914
Buried/Commemorated at: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial (Panel 22 and 34), Belgium
Age: 26
Further information:
Walter Stinchcombe was born in 1888 in Hawkesbury to parents, Morgan and Alice Jane Stinchcombe. He was one of 8 children, his sisters; Jane Matilda Stinchcombe was born 1883 and Alice Maud Stinchcombe was born 1886, his brothers: Alfred Morgan Stinchcombe was born 1884, Charles Stinchcombe was born 1890, Ernest Stinchcombe was born 1893, Lawson Stinchcombe was born 1895 and Frederick Stinchcombe was born 1900.
Walter Stinchcombe joined the army in 1907 and was a member of the regimental band of the Glosters. When war was declared and the battalion sent to France, Walter, as a bandsman, took on his wartime role as a stretcher bearer, serving with the 1st Battalion. On 7th November outside Ypres, the Battalion was involved in an attack, during the course of the fighting, Walter Stinchcombe was reported as wounded and missing. No further news was to be received by his family until July 1915 when it was confirmed that he had been Killed in Action on this day. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial (Panel 22 and 34) in Belgium.
Walter Stinchcombe is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry
Forces War Records and CWGC