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BER Walter Henry
Corporal 62496 1/10 (Cyclist) Battalion, Royal Scots
Regiment
Born at the end of 1891 in Kings Cliffe, Walter was the son of
William and Eliza Gimber of High Street, Kings Cliffe.
By 1911 he was living and working in London for Cook Son
& Co as a wholesale warehouseman. The company were
linen wholesalers. He was living in company accommodation
at Knightsbridge Street, EC. Also working there and living at
the same address was another 19-year-old Kings Cliffe boy –
Thomas E Green from Park Street. He was the son of the carver
John Ventross Green.
Not far away in Knightsbridge was Catherine Florence Green
working as a house-maid for a barrister. She was the daughter
of a different Green family (Robert and Esther) who also lived
on Park St.
It is clear that the Kings Cliffe contingent in London kept in touch
with each other as Walter and Catherine married in Edmonton
in 1914. They were both 23 years old.
A year later, in May 1915, their son Sidney Arthur was born at
Kings Cliffe.
In December 1915 Walter signed up for the army, just before
conscription started, but he was not mobilised until April of the
next year.
He served for a while in Ireland but, other than that, he does not
go overseas during the war.
At the end of the war he is retained for service with the
occupying forces and is awarded a bonus of 12/3d (£0.61) a
week. However before he leaves for Germany he is registered
unfit by a medical tribunal due to a heart problem when doing
any physical exercise.
He was discharged in April 1919. On his discharge papers his
home is shown as Gladstone House, Kings Cliffe, and his next
of kin, his wife, Mrs G H Gimber is living there.
They do not stay in the village very long as, by 1920, they are
living in Hendon at 37 Meads Road. By 1928 they have moved
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Corporal 62496 1/10 (Cyclist) Battalion, Royal Scots
Regiment
Born at the end of 1891 in Kings Cliffe, Walter was the son of
William and Eliza Gimber of High Street, Kings Cliffe.
By 1911 he was living and working in London for Cook Son
& Co as a wholesale warehouseman. The company were
linen wholesalers. He was living in company accommodation
at Knightsbridge Street, EC. Also working there and living at
the same address was another 19-year-old Kings Cliffe boy –
Thomas E Green from Park Street. He was the son of the carver
John Ventross Green.
Not far away in Knightsbridge was Catherine Florence Green
working as a house-maid for a barrister. She was the daughter
of a different Green family (Robert and Esther) who also lived
on Park St.
It is clear that the Kings Cliffe contingent in London kept in touch
with each other as Walter and Catherine married in Edmonton
in 1914. They were both 23 years old.
A year later, in May 1915, their son Sidney Arthur was born at
Kings Cliffe.
In December 1915 Walter signed up for the army, just before
conscription started, but he was not mobilised until April of the
next year.
He served for a while in Ireland but, other than that, he does not
go overseas during the war.
At the end of the war he is retained for service with the
occupying forces and is awarded a bonus of 12/3d (£0.61) a
week. However before he leaves for Germany he is registered
unfit by a medical tribunal due to a heart problem when doing
any physical exercise.
He was discharged in April 1919. On his discharge papers his
home is shown as Gladstone House, Kings Cliffe, and his next
of kin, his wife, Mrs G H Gimber is living there.
They do not stay in the village very long as, by 1920, they are
living in Hendon at 37 Meads Road. By 1928 they have moved
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