Chief Petty Officer WALTER ROBERT FRANCIS
Service Number: C/231988
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Wildfire.
Date of Death
Died 23 October 1940
Age 52 years old
Buried or commemorated at
GILLINGHAM (WOODLANDS) CEMETERY, KENT
Naval Reservation. Grave 1286.
United Kingdom
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Distinguished Service Medal
- Additional Info Croix de Guerre avec Palme. Son of George Henry and Mary Francis; husband of Winifred Ada Francis, of Welling.
- Personal Inscription THE CALL WAS SHORT THE SHOCK SEVERE TO PART WITH ONE WE LOVED SO DEAR
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