The men on Royston’s War memorial in Melbourn Street

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In 2018 the What Royston Did team embarked on project to compile information about the men who served in tboth World Wars and who are listed on the Royston War Memorial.

This was used to build plaques which were displayed beside the Memorial in the lead up to the Remembrance Day Service. Space on each plaque was limited and so, where other information is known about each individual, it is included here.

The information has been compiled from several sources including the “Local Patriots” series published in The Crow during the war, the book on the memorial written by Douglas Ploughman, the data held by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and, in some cases, the men’s families.

However, there is always the possibility that these histories contain errors or omissions and the project team would like to hear from anyone with information which could lead to their correction.

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Centenary book

To commemorate the centenary of the memorial’s dedication in 1922, the What Royston Did team has written a book, published by the Royston and District Local History Society, giving full details of the men listed on the Memorial from both world wars. It is available from the Local History Society, the Cave Shop, Bows Books and Royston Museum. 

Royston Local History Society Publications

The name panels

WW1 - Left panel

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WW1 - Right panel

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WW2 - central panel

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Entries for World War 1 - 1914 to 1918

The entries here are in strict alphabetical order. The memorial entries for the Great War are in alphabetical order within rank, following the custom of the time.

Ackroyd%20 %20Harold

Captain, Royal Army Medical Corp, 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment

Born 1877, Southport, Lancashire. Son of Ellen and Edward Ackroyd. Husband of Mabel and father of Ursula, Stephen, and Anthony.
He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Guys Hospital, London, qualifying as an MD in 1910. He moved to Royston, living at “Brooklands”, Kneesworth Street with his wife and their children prior to enlistment. Awarded the Military Cross in October 1916 and the Victoria Cross, posthumously, on 1st August 1917.

Enlisted
Royston, February 1915
Died
Sunday, 11th August 1917, aged 40
Buried
Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Belgium

Anderson%20 %20Charles

Rifleman, 21st (County of London) Battalion, 1st Surrey Rifles
Regimental Number : 652043

Born 1892, Royston. Only son of Agnes and John Anderson of Town Hall Cottages, Melbourn Street, Royston. Employed at one time at the Royston Post Office as a telegraph messenger.

Enlisted
Woolwich, February 1916
Died
Friday, 15th September 1916, aged 24. He was reported missing on 15th September 1916. His death on that date was confirmed in August 1917.
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 10377

Formerly Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 8077

Born 1889, Royston. Son of Lydia Ann Blows and Ebenezer Frederick Anderson. His siblings were William Edward, Harold, Percy George, Leonard Bertie, and Gladys May.

Enlisted
Royston, 1904
Died
Saturday, 1st July 1916, aged 27
Buried
Ovillers Military Cemetery, France

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Lance-Corporal, 1st Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 265174

Third son of William and Eliza Andrews of Mount Terrace, Royston. Served with the Royston “E” Company and went out to France with them in November 1914. He was slightly wounded in early 1917 and was discharged as time-expired later that year. He rejoined and again went to France on 24th June 1917. He married Beatrice Chapman in 1915 and they had two children.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Thursday, 22nd August 1917, aged 24
Buried
Voormezeele Cemetery, Belgium

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Private, 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 28825

Second son of John and Mary Ann Ayres of Garden Walk and later Rock Road, Royston. Originally enlisting in the A.S.C. he was transferred to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1917 and sent out to France the following June. In September 1917 he was wounded on the Cambrai-Bapaume Front.

Enlisted
Marylebone, London, October 1914 
Died
Saturday, 23rd March 1918, aged 37
Memorial
Arras, France

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Rifleman, 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Regimental Number : 45865

Younger son of William Robert and Annie Elizabeth Baker of High Street, Royston. He was sent to France on Easter Monday 1918.

Enlisted
Marylebone, London, May 1917
Died
Sunday, 13th October 1918, aged 19
Buried
St. Aubert British Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 10th Battalion, Cameronians Rifles (Scottish Riffles)
Regimental Number : 8500

Lived with his wife, Ellen Hillary, and their two children, William John and Rose, at Mackerel Hall, Royston. He served 14 years in the army, going out with the first Expeditionary Force in 1914 during which time he was awarded the Mons Star. He returned to Scotland for two years before being sent out to France a second time in January 1918, this time being awarded the D.C.M. for “splendid and gallant leadership”.

Enlisted
Royston, Circa 1902
Died
Sunday, 13th October 1918, aged 33
Buried
Philophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Regimental Number : 203420

Born 1897, Royston. He was the third child and second son of Caroline Rebecca and William Barnard of 2 The Fleet, Royston. He went out to France on 30th August 1916.

Enlisted
Royston, 26th December 1914
Died
Sunday, 25th November 1917, aged 19 
Buried
Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Belgium

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Private, 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 40417

The second son of John and Alice Beale. An employee of Messrs. Duce and Lilly he also assisted his father, the caretaker of the Royston Cemetery as a grave digger. He married Mary Rhodes in Luton prior to departure for France.

Enlisted
Hitchin, March 1917 in the Suffolk Regiment
Died
Tuesday, 31st July 1917, aged 29, at the start for the Battle of Passchendaele when the Regiment was in action at Pilckem Ridge.
Buried
Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Belgium.    

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Private, 1st/6th Battalion, London Regiment (City of London Riffles)
Regimental Number : 322643

Born in Royston, the son of Thomas Thackery and Mary Elizabeth Biffen of Mill Road, Royston.

Conscripted
Hammersmith, London, 1916 
Died
Thursday, 29th August 1918
Memorial
Vis-en-Artois. France

The "Herts at War" project has further information about Frederick Biffen and would be glad to share this with those with an interest in him. They can be contacted via their website.

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Private, 'D' Company, 5th Regiment, 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry
Regimental Number : 2459

Third son of John and Caroline Bishop of the High Street, Royston. Employed at Gimson and Co. Royston, he emigrated to Australia in December 1911 where he found employment as a salesman.

Enlisted
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8th July 1915
Died
Sunday, 12th November 1916, aged 32 
Buried
Australian Infantry Forces Cemetery, Flers, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 27464

Youngest son of John and Ann Blows of Mount Terrace, Royston. Married to Gertrude with a son, Arthur John, living in Queens Road, Royston. Employed by Mr John B. Bishop, Upholsterer, etc., Royston for 14 or 15 years prior to enlisting.

Enlisted
Hitchin, 1916
Died
Sunday, 4th March 1917, aged 26
Memorial
Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, ‘B' Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, Duke Of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Regimental Number : 203415

Son of Elizabeth and Henry John Blows of King Street, Royston, and a grandson of Louisa and John Blows of Back Street (now King Street), Royston. Wounded in the foot in early 1917 he convalesced at Hoddesdon before returning to France in September that year.

Enlisted
Royston, February 1915
Died
Wednesday, 21st November 1917 from wounds received in action, aged 20.
Memorial
Cambrai, Louveral, France

Walter%20Anderson

Gunner, ‘X' Company, 2nd Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number : L/39838

Son of John and Louisa Blows of King Street, Royston. He was a member of the Herts. Constabulary stationed at Letchworth. He was married to Gerrude with a daughter, Mayden Gertrude, living in Luton at the time of his death.

Enlisted
Letchworth, 27th August 1915
Died
Sunday, 20th January 1918, aged 28. He was severly wounded by a bomb dropped from an enemy plane, undergoing four operations to remove 9 peices of shrapnel, but could not be saved.
Buried
Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Royal Marines Light Infantry, SS Hunsbsridge
Regimental Number : CH/11790 (RMR15/67)

Son of William and Lucy Blows of Wicker Hall,Royston and husband of Florence Warner whom he married in 1911. They had three children, Frederick Charles (from Lucy’s previous marriage), Lucy Louisa, and William James.

Enlisted
Royston, 1900
Died
Friday, 7th September 1917, aged 38. He was lost at sea as a result of submarine action and his body was not recovered.
Memorial
Chatham Naval Memorial, England

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Royal Engineers, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266357

Fourth son of James and Mary Elizabeth Blunt of Silver Hill, Royston. Employed by Mr J. C. Wilkerson of Heath Farm, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, January 1915 aged 15 years and 9 months. He embarked for France in December 1916 serving with the Royal Engineers.
Died
Friday, 13th July 1917, aged 18
Buried
Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium 

Walter%20Anderson

Sapper, 11th Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 84th Brigade 
Regimental Number : 94999

Only son of Martha and John Blunt of Morton Street, Royston. Married to Rachel Mary Blunt, “Westbrook”, Royston with a daughter, Kathleen Mary. He worked as an overseer at Royston Post Office.

Enlisted
Royston, April 1915
Died
Friday, 19th November 1915 in St George’s Hospital of an intestinal infection, Malta, aged 40, following a previous attack of dysentery from which he had recovered.
Buried
Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 4/6914

Second son of James and Mary Elizabeth Blunt of Silver Hill, Royston. During the battle of the Somme, on the 12th October 1916, the 2nd Battalion were engaged in the battle for Le Transloy where they took heavy casualties. Frederick Blunt suffered shell shock and a wound in his knee. Frederick was taken prisoner in March 1918, dying in captivity.

Enlisted
Royston, January 1914
Died
Tuesday, 30th July 1918, aged 25 as a prisoner of war 
Buried
Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, part of the 18th Devision 
Regimental Number : 36241

Third son of James and Mary Elizabeth Blunt of Silver Hill, Royston. Employed as a hay carter by Mr Noads of Wicker Hall, Royston. He was sent to France in May 1916.

Enlisted
Royston, February 1915
Died
Tuesday, 31st July 1917, aged 20, less than three weeks after his brother, Albert Lewis, was killed.
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Regimental Number : 79458

Born and lived in Royston, son of Charles Henry and Louisa Bullard of High Street Royston and later, The Dale, Letchworth.

Enlisted
Royston, 1915
Died
Wednesday, 13th September 1916, aged 20
Buried
Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

His sister Kathleen, known as Grace, was working as a governess in Charleroi, Belgium when war broke out.

Read her story in Narratives of War
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Private, 16th Battalion, Welsh Regiment
Regimental Number : 55236

Son of Betsy and Charles Burt. Husband of Jane Burt of East Cliff, Ramsgate. Lived in Melbourn Street and worked at the Phillips Brewery, Royston.

Enlisted
Bedford, November 1916
Died
Monday, 8th October 1917, aged 26
Buried
Estaires Communal Extension Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Regimental Number : 22758

Youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Carter of West Terrace, Royston. He married Ethel Mary Searle in 1907. They had five sons, Gilbert, Fred, Dennis (who died aged 2), Vernon, and Cyril. The family lived in Hornsey, London. At one time he was a bricklayer for Messrs. Jacklin & Co (who later built the memorial) and Messrs. Gimson & Co, Royston. At the time of his enlistment he was employed by Mr Samuel Willmott in Hornsey. 

Enlisted
Mill Hill, London, May 1916
Died
Tuesday, 31st July 1917, aged 34
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd/5th Battalion, Duke Of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
Regimental Number : 203444

Second son of Samuel Henry and Sarah Elizabeth Carter of Rock Road, Royston. Employed by Messrs. Jacklin & Co., Royston. Wounded several times prior to his death.

Enlisted
Royston, January 1915
Died
Sunday, 20th October 1918, aged 21
Buried
Qievy Communal Cemetery Extension, France

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Private, 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. part bof 26th Devision
Regimental Number : 21799

Son of Joseph and Louisa Emma Carter of Rock Road, Royston.

Enlisted
London, November 1915 and was sent to Salonika in September 1916.
Died
Wednesday, 9th May 1917, aged 27, after being officially reported wounded on 25th April although his letters home dated 29th April and 6th May did not mention this.
Memorial
Doiran Memorial, Greece

Walter%20Anderson

Driver, ‘A’ Battery, 301st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Regimental Number : 159269

Son of James and Mary Caton of Denmark House, North Road, Royston and a native of Anstey, Buntingford.

Enlisted
Hertford, May 1915
Died
Wednesday, 22nd January 1919 of enteritis, aged 30 
Buried 
Alexandria (Hadra) Cemetery, Egypt

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 9036

Son of George and Matha Chapman of Norman Lane, Royston. Born in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire and living in Therfield, Hertfordshire.  He was employed by the Railway, working as a platelayer

Enlisted
Royston 1914 
Died
Wednesday, 8th May 1918, aged 30
Memorial
Tyne Cot, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Regimental Number : 16431

Eldest son of Police-Sergeant William George and Bertha Chapman of ’The Briars’, Briary Lane, Royston. Employed at the Dacre Motor Company, Letchworth and at the Heatly Gresham works. He fought in the Battle of Aisne in November 1914 and at the Retreat from Mons. He was taken prisoner in November 1914 but escaped. He was mentioned in Field Marshall Sir John French’s despatches of 14th January 1915 for gallant and distinguished services and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Enlisted
Hertford, 1913
Died
Sunday, 7th February 1915, aged 20
Buried
Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 15436

Elder son of Frederick Thomas and Lizzie Charter of York Terrace London Road, Royston. He was employed by Mr. Jarman at Mile End Farm. Sent to France on 30th August 1915, he was gassed on 26th December 1915 and convalesced in Etaples and Gravesend before returning home for a short period. He was again invalided to England in July 1917, to a hospital near Chiswick before returning to France in August that year.

Enlisted
Royston, 7th September 1914
Died
Saturday, 21st September 1918, aged 22
Memorial
Vis-en-Artois. France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Labour Corps, Eastern Counties Labour Centre
Regimental Number : 551265

Living with Agnes Maud Dunham, his foster mother, in Melbourn Road, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 5th March 1918 
Died
Friday, 5th December 1919 in an accident at Park Royal, London, aged 18
Buried
Non Conformist Cemetery, Royston, England

Walter%20Anderson

Lance-Corporal, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266359

Only son of John W. and Susan Harriett Cooper of Melbourn Street, Royston. He was employed at Simpson’s Brewery in Baldock. He was sent to France in March 1916.

Enlisted
Royston, January 1915
Died
Tuesday, 31st July 1917, aged 25
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 19399

Second son of Joseph and Susan Coote of the "Coach and Horses",Royston. He was a corporal in the Royston “E” Company, Hertfordshire Volunteers. He married Mabel Sarah Sparey on 31st August 1911 at St. Mary the Virgin, Harringay, London. They had a son, George Arthur, born 11th September 1913. The family lived at Stamford Avenue, Royston. He worked as an assistant fishmonger. In January 1916 he became a Gymnasium Instructor for the Battalion. He was a one time member of the Royston Football Club.

Enlisted
Royston, January 1915
Died
Monday, 13th November 1916. aged 29. whilst leading his men at Beaumont Hamel, France
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266717

Elder son of John Prime and Annie Coote of High Street, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, June 1915
Died
Monday, 10th June 1918, aged 19
Buried
Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 15446

Son of Alfred and Martha Ann Coxall of Godfrey’s Terrace, London Road, Royston. He worked for Mr. J.C. Wilkerson at Barley. He was sent to France at the end of August 1915 where he was cook to the Officer’s Mess.

Enlisted
Royston, August 1914
Died
Friday, 15th September 1916, aged 21
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266200

Youngest son of Alfred and Martha Ann Coxall of Godfrey’s Terrace, London Road, Royston. He was employed in Messrs. Beale’s bakery in Royston. He trained at Halton Park, Tring, gaining certificates in signalling and musketry. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps at St. Leonards-on-Sea and afterwards to the Bedfordshires when sent out to France in January 1918.

Enlisted
Hertford, November 1915
Died
Tuesday, 14th May 1918 in No.11 Stationary Hospital at Rouen as a result of gas poisoning, aged 19.
Buried
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

On the Memorial as a Lance Corporal

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, 11th Battalion (Service), Hampshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 11256

Son of William and Jane Elizabeth Dann of Cranmore Leas Rd, Guildford, Surrey. Worked at Messrs. Frost & Co., Royston.

Enlisted
Guildford, Surrey, 1914
Died
Saturday, 9th September 1916, aged 24
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Royston ‘E' Company, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 2238

Third son of Samuel and Florence Darlow of George Lane, Royston. He was a Boy Scout and joined the Territorials as soon as he was old enough. He was Sergeant-Instructor for a troop of the Boy Scouts as well as a boxing champion for them. Worked for Dr. C.F. Wightman before moving to London where he worked as a baker.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Wednesday, 18th November 1914 (reported missing, supposed killed), aged 18
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 36300
Formerly Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 5742

Youngest son of James and Sarah Day of York Terrace, Royston and nephew of Mrs. J. Matthews of Steeple Morden.

Enlisted
Hertford, 1915
Died
Friday, 4th May 1917, aged 30 
Buried
Wancourt British Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Regimental Number : S/15766

Son of Frederick and Mary Jane Dellar of Sun Hill, Royston. Born in Walworth, Surrey. Lived in Shoreditch, London. Worked on the Great Northern Railway and at Jeremiah Rotherham’s in London. Wounded in the left hand and was treated at a hospital in Le Treport before returning to the front line.

Enlisted
Royston, 17th February 1916
Died
Thursday, 21st March 1918, aged 26
Memorial
Pozieres, France 

On the Memorial as J.F.C. Dellar

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 23044

Son of Arthur and Mary Ann Drage of Queens Road, Royston. Husband of Louisa Maud Chapman of Rock Road, Royston. Sent to France in July 1916 and invalided home in November that year. He was in hospital in Oxford at a convalescent home in Eastbourne before rejoining his regiment and returning to France in February 1917.

Enlisted
Bedford, November 1915
Died
Monday, 23rd April 1917 (reported wounded and missing), aged 26
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st/8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (Gun Section)
Regimental Number : 15627

Youngest son of Arthur and Mary Ann Drage of Queens Road, Royston. Served 5 years apprenticeship with Mr J. Mason, printer, of Royston. He was sent to France in August 1915 seeing his first action in the trenches at Loos. He is believed to have been in the trenches on Christmas Day and was wounded in the head, arm and shoulder on 27th December 1915.

Enlisted
Royston, September 1914
Died
Monday, 10th January 1916 of his wounds at the St. John Ambulance Hospital at Etaples, France, aged 20.
Buried
Etaples Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 20th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment

Regimental Number : G/41715

Son of George and Florence Dumelow of Royston. Husband of Alice Maud Cowell of Mill Road, Royston. He drove one of the Mail Carts and acted as a temporary town postman in Royston. While training at Tidworth with the Middlesex Regiment he was awarded the “Cross Guns” before being set out to France on 25th November 1916.

Enlisted
Hitchin, May 1916
Died
Wednesday, 10th January 1917 in 5th General Hospital, Rouen, of wounds received in action, aged 28.
Buried
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 4/6129 

Second son of John and Jane Feast of Hastings Villas, Gower Road, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, November 1914
Died
Saturday, 1st July 1916, aged 20
Buried
Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Sapper, 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Regimental Number : 25969

Eldest son of John and Jane Feast of Hastings Villas, Gower Road, Royston. He was an apprentice brick layer. Wounded in the leg on 6th April 1915 and died in hospital the follwing day.

Enlisted
Royston, November 1914
Died
Wednesday, 7th April 1915, aged 23 
Buried
Béthune Town Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Regimental Number : 56616

Youngest son of Sidney and Selena Fisher of Factory Cottages, Orchard Road, Royston.

Enlisted
Hitchin, 1917
Died
Tuesday, 23rd April 1918, aged 19
Memorial
Loos, France

On the Memorial as a Lance Corporal

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 15th (The King's) Hussars
Regimental Number : 4003

Fifth son of Richard George and Mary Ann Freeman of Eagle Tavern Cottages, Royston. He had served 18 years and 3 months in Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ireland, India and South Africa. He had returned from India nine months before the outbreak of the war.

Enlisted
Royston, date not known
Died
Sunday, 22nd July 1917, aged 39. He was seriously injured by an Allied anti-aircraft shell.
Memorial
Anzac Cemetery, Sailly-sur-la-Lys, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 4062

Fourth son of William and Sarah Jane Frost of Queen's Road, Royston. Employed at Huggins pork butchers in Melbourn.

Enlisted
Cambridge, early 1916
Died
Wednesday, 30th August 1916, aged 19
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Corporal, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Regimental Number : L/14507

Youngest son of William Henry and Emily Gatward of Gower Road, Royston. He was in India when war broke out. Wounded in the right hand in February 1915 and in the left hand in August 1916 he was hospitalised for a few weeks before returning to the fighting.

Enlisted
1911 (location not known)
Died
Monday, 9th April 1917, aged 26 
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Regimental Number : GDSN 15244

Son of Ernest William and Matilda Giffen of Garden Walk, Royston and later “The Beehive”, Litlington. He was wounded in the left shoulder and right leg at Ypres on 1st November 1914. Undergoing several operations he was hospitalised in the Eastern General in Cambridge and the Royston Soldier’s Hospital. He had already served three years in April 1914 and was on the reserve when he was recalled. He went out to France on 14th August 1914. He saw action in the retreat from Mons before receiving his wounds at Ypres.

Enlisted
Royston, April 1911
Died
Friday, 28th March 1918, aged 25 
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 5th Battalion, Kings's Shropshire Light Infantry
Regimental Number : 26224

Youngest son of Samuel and Eliza Gillett of Factory Cottages, Royston. He had worked at the printing office of the “Herts. and Cambs. Reporter” for 20 years prior to enlistment. Originally in the Sherwood Foresters he was sent out to France in August 1916 where he was transferred to the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry.

Enlisted
Royston, March 1916
Died
Wednesday, 11th April 1917, aged 34, at the 4th General Hospital, France, of wounds received in the chest on 22nd March.
Buried
Etaples Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Son of Owen and Ellen Godfrey of Green Street, Royston. Served in India and Ireland where he was when the war broke out. He was at the retreat from Mons and the stand on the Banks of the Aisne. He was wounded twice, in the shoulder and knee, by shell bursts on 15th October 1914 at La Bassée.

Enlisted
Royston, 1904 (aged 15)
Died
Thursday, 20th July 1916, aged 27
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery

Only son of Thomas and Edith M Goodman of The Plantation, Royston. Educated at Caldecott School, the Perse School and Leeds University, where he was studying for his B.Sc. He was in an Officer Training Corps camp on Salisbury Plain when war was declared. On 14th August 1914 he was “gazetted” 2nd Lieutenant and Lieutenant in August 1915 before being sent to France in October that year.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Friday, 1st June 1917 at 5.00 a.m. by a shell burst which killed in instantly, aged 23
Buried
La Clytte Military Cemetery, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 21st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Regimental Number : TF 207957

Eldest son of George and Alice Gray of Morton Street, Royston. Husband of Naomi Hayes of Green Street, Royston. They had eight children. He had been employed by Messrs. Abbott and Son for about 14 years but was working for Messrs. Nash and Co when be enlisted.

Enlisted
Bedford, 3rd July 1917
Died
Saturday, 23rd March 1918, aged 39
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 46990

Third son of George and Alice Gray of Morton Street, Royston. He worked as a gardener for the Phillips family, brewers in Royston.

Enlisted
Bedford, June 1916
Died
Monday, 22nd April 1918, aged 30
Buried
Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, ‘C' Company, 2nd/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion
Regimental Number : G38926

Elder son of John and Eliza Hale of Police Row, Therfield and later West Terrace, Baldock Street, Royston. Employed for three years as a gardener by Mr. W.J. Abbott at Brewery House. He was in the R.D.B Territorial Regiment prior to transferring to the Kent Cyclists on 1st May 1918.

Enlisted
Hertford, February 1918
Died
Sunday, 5th May 1918 at the Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, aged 18.
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, England, with millitary honours.

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, (Hertfordshire Yeomanry)
Regimental Number : 105952

Son of the late Arthur Hallum and Susan Muncy (formerly Hallum) of The Fleet, Baldock Street, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Tuesday, 12th November 1918, aged 25
Buried
Muttra Cemetery, Uttar Pradesh, India
Memorial
Also remembered on the Madras (1914-1918) War Memorial, Chennai, India

Photograph from Ancestry

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 11th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Regimental Number : G/18711
Formerly of the West Surrey Regiment
Regimental Number : 11707

Only son of Arthur Albert and Elizabeth Ann Harradine of Morton Street, Royston. Employed in Royston Cash Grocery Stores.

Enlisted
Hitchin, 20th February 1917
Died
Sunday, 21st April 1918, aged 19, at the 2nd General Australian Hospital of wounds received on 27th March.
Buried
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 23rd Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment
Regimental Number : G29574
Formerly of the Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 13993

Son of Henry and Tamer Hicks of Anstey. Married to Eliza with daughters Eva Elizabeth and Cassie Jemima, the family lived at Factory Cottages, Royston. He worked at Nash & Co, coal yard, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 8th September 1914  - Bedfordshire Regiment, discharged for medical reasons.
Bedford, June 1916 - Duke of Cambridgeshire’s Own Regiment
Died
Friday, 22nd March 1918, aged 33
Buried
Grévilliers British Cemetery, France

Image of HG Hicks with thanks to Ansteyvillage.org.uk and family members

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Regimental Number : 25509

Eldest son of George and Susannah Horn of The Green, Royston. Employed by John Pigg of Royston and, prior to that, in the gardens of Earls Hill House and Yew Tree House, Royston. He was sent to France on 27th August 1916. He was the first Royston man injured in the war to die in this country.

Enlisted
Royston, 21st February 1916
Died
Tuesday, 17th October 1916 in King George’s Hospital, London from wounds received on 25th September, aged 20
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, England, with millitary honours.

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266740
Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 5287 

Son of William and Mary Howard. Married Rose Pardoe in 1909 at Royston. They two children, Amelia Ellen and Rosina May and lived at Back Street (now King Street), Royston. Employed at Royston Brewery.

Enlisted
Hertford, February 1915
Died
Friday, 22nd March 1918, aged 33
Memorial
Pozières, France

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 3rd Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment
Regimental Number : 34510
566th Company, Labour Corps
Regimental Number : 132137

Son of Peter and Marianna Hoy, The Warren, Royston. Husband of Florence Augusta Hoy of Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. Serverd for 23 years in India and Tibet.

Re-Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Sunday, 22nd May 1918, aged 40
Memorial
Manchester Southern Cemetery, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 8th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Lewis Gun Section)
Regimental Number : 235052

Youngest son of Joseph and Elizabeth Priscilla Humphrey of Barfield Cottages, Royston. He was an Assistant Scout-Master in the Royston Boy Scout Troop and employed as a grocer’s assistant in Messrs. W.C. Titchmarsh & Co’s shop since he left school. He was a time expired member of the Royston 'E' Company, Hertfordshire Regiment but rejoined at the outbreak of the war and went out to France (as a Private) in November 1916.

Re-enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Friday, 5th April 1918, aged 30
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, South African Infantry
Regimental Number : 18540

Son of George Harding and Mary Innes of The Warren, Royston. He served in South Africa under the name of Harding.

Enlisted
Bedford, 1914
Died
Thursday, 17th October 1918, aged 44
Buried
Ors British Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 25561

Son of Benjamin and Clara James. Lived in The Warren, Royston with his wife, Mercy, and 7 children. Employed for over 20 years by Mr. W. Bedwell, plumber and decorator, Royston.

Enlisted
Hitchin, June 1916
Died
Sunday, 4th March 1917, aged 36
Memorial
Thiepval, France 

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Numbers : 15623

Son of Mrs. M. A. Jeffrey of Shanklin, Isle of White. Believed to have been a labourer within the villages of Kneesworth nd Bassingbourn.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Sunday, 17th September 1916, aged 20
Buried
Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France 

On the Memorial as Private J. Jeffries. The spelling and rank used here  follows the Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry.

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 5156

Youngest son of William John and Esther King of Back Street (now King Street), Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, June 1915
Died
Saturday, 27th May 1916, aged 18
Buried
Béthune Town Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 29956

Younger son of Denis and Mary Ann Lilley of Garden Walk, Royston. Employed by Messrs. Halstead & Kestell's store on Market Hill, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 1916
Died
Saturday, 27th January 1917, aged 19
Buried
Varennes Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Driver, Army Service Corp, attached to 22nd Anti-Aircraft Section, Royal Artillery
Regimental Number : M2/ 074520

Fourth son of Stephen and Elizabeth Marshall of ‘Orchard Cottage’,Factory Lane, Royston. Married to Elizabeth Hanna Marshall with a daughter, Florence Martha born in 1903. Employed at one time by Mr. E. Logsden and was, when war broke out, working as a private chauffeur at Buckhurst Hill Park, Enfield. He was on his way to France within three weeks of enlistment.

Enlisted
London, April 1915
Died
Friday, 18th June 1915, aged 39. While driving an officer in the Anti-aircraft Section in Festubert on 17th June he was severley wounded by a bursting shell and died of his injuries the following day.
Buried
Hinges Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 3/8565

Youngest son of Stephen and Elizabeth Marshall of 'Orchard Cottage’, Factory Lane, Royston. Employed as a bricklayer by Messrs. Gimson & Co, Royston and then by Mr. C.F. Ball in Letchworth.

Enlisted
Hitchin, August 1914
Died
Sunday, 7th March 1915, aged 29. He was killed by shell burst near Ypres.
Buried
La Chapelle Farm, Zilebeke and re-interref after armistice at the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 12026

Son of Richard and Ann Mawson of Oakley Park, Bromfield,Ludlow. Husband of Lucy Vipond Mawson of Bedford. The lived at Serby Avenue in Royston and had two children, Percy and Joan. He worked as a commercial traveller.

Enlisted
Hitchin, 1914
Died
Thursday, 4th May 1916, aged 36
Buried
Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Valais, France

Image of Percy Mawson courtesy of Ashley Mawson

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 36393

Son of George and Mary Mulberry of London Road, Royston. Employed by Mr. Jarman at Mile End Farm near Royston.

Enlisted
Hertford, November 1915
Died
Saturday, 19th May 1917, aged 32
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Regimental Number : G/11270

Son of Thomas and Emma Jane Nelson of the 'Prince of Wales’ public house, Barkway Street, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 19th August 1914. Originally enlisting in the Bedfordshire Regiment, he was discharged 3 months later but was recalled to the Royal Sussex Regiment in March 1916.
Died
Saturday, 9th September 1916, aged 26
Buried
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 266711

Fourth son of James and Louisa Newling of The Warren, Royston. He was 15 years and 8 month old when he enlisted and was sent out to France in April 1916.

Enlisted
Royston, 7th June 1915
Died
Sunday, 23rd July 1916, aged 16
Memorial
Loos, France
He is remembered on his parents' grave in Royston and his age is given as that when he enlisted.

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Regimental Number : 73562

Eldest son of Frank and Sarah Ann Newman of Town Hall Cottages, Melbourn Street, Royston. Employed at Mr. E.R. Smith’s Seed Mill, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, March 1918
Died
Tuesday, 8th October 1918, aged 18
Memorial
Bel-Aise Farm Cemetery Memorial, Bois-des-Angles British Cemetery, Crèvcœuer-sur-l’Escaut, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Machine-gun Section, 11th ‘D’ Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 16703

Second son of Herbert J. and Ellen Norman of Town Hall Cottages, Melbourn Street, Royston. Employed as a chauffeur with Mr. C.V. Grundy, Royston.

Enlisted
Cambridge, 18th November 1914
Died
Saturday, 1st July 1916, aged 21
Buried
Ovillers Military Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Regimental Number : G/15501
Formerly Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 4403

Son of Alice Nottage of Bromley, Kent. Born in Barkway, Hertfordshire.

Enlisted
Hertford (Exact date not known)
Died
Wednesday, 28th March 1917, aged 19
Buried
Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, Fance

Walter%20Anderson

Lance-Corporal, 1st Surrey Riffles, 1st/21st East Surrey Regiment and London Regiment
Regimental Number : 36091
Formerly with the Royal Flying Corps
Service Number : 54109

Born in Rayleigh, Essex, son of George Frederick and Mary Ann Offord. He moved to Royston in later life. He became known as “The gentleman fishmonger of Royston” while trading from his shop in Market Hill. 

Enlisted
Hitchin, December 1915
Died
Saturday, 24th August 1918, aged 35
Memorial
Vis-en-Artois. France
His brother, A.W. Offord, donated a set of gates dedicated to his memory which were placed at the south-east entrance to the Priory Memorial Gardens, Royston and officially opened on 31st May 1953.

Image of WG Offord with thanks to Alan Cecil

Read more about Walter in Royston War Memorials
Walter%20Anderson

Sapper, 70th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Regimental Number : 49140

Second son of James and Elenor Paterson of ‘Victoria House’, Old Norh Road, Royston. Employed at the Enfield Small Arms Factory.

Enlisted
Royston, August 1914
Died
Sunday, 27th August 1916, aged 25, killed by a sniper,
Buried
Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France

Walter%20Anderson

Rifleman, 5th Battalion, Royal Kings Rifle Corps
Regimental Number : 46941

Only son of Albert C. and Alice Pearce of Mill Road, Royston. Married to Lucy E. Lemon of Thornton Heath, Surrey with two children. Apprenticed to Mr. W Smith, carriage smith, Royston. Also worked in the Sunday School and other instutions connected with the Parish Church and Mission Room.

Enlisted
Thornton Heath, 15th May 1918
Died
Friday, 5th July 1918 of influenza at the Military Hospital, Sheerness, aged 32.
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston, England

Walter%20Anderson

Private, No. 4 Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Regimental Number : 1382

Youngest son of John George and Mary Ann Pepper of Factory Cottages, Royston. Employed by Mr. T. Goodman’s grocery store, Royston prior to emegrating to Canada in February 1912 to join his four brothers.

Enlisted
Calgary, Canada, 1914. Initially enlisted in the Legion of Frontiersmen but changed to the Field Ambulance Corps where he believed he had a better chance of joining the fighting.
Died
Friday, 29th September 1916, aged 23
Buried
Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Walter%20Anderson

Trooper, Ontario Mounted Police and 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
Regimental Numbers : 4198 and 109163

Son of Lucy and Frank Herbert Perry of Crawley, Sussex. The family was employed on the Burloes Estate near Royston. He left for Canada in 1911, becoming part of the Ontario Governor General’s bodyguard.

Enlisted
Toronto, Canada, 28th November 1914
Died
Wednesday, 6th November 1918 of influenza, aged 25
Buried
St. John’s Church Cemetery, York Mills, Toronto, Canada

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Duke Of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment and 7th Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers
Regimental Numbers : 34165 and GS/61326

Son of Sarah Pettengell and grandson of William and Ann Pettengell. He was married to Elenor Pettengell and lived at Factory Cottages, Royston. They had two children, Alice May and Ernest Herbert. He was employed by W.T. Nash, coal merchant.

Enlisted
Hitchin, April 1916
Died
Friday, 25th May 1917, aged 26 
Buried
Albuera Cemetery, Bailleul-Sire-Berthoult, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 14099

Only son of Charles Octavius and Mary Pigg of Lorne Cottages, Morton Street, Royston. Employed in the gardens at Icknield Bury, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, August 1914
Died
Tuesday, 12th September 1916, aged 24
Buried
La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, France

Walter%20Anderson

Gunner, Machine-gun Corp (Heavy Branch)
Regimental Number : 38069 

Third son of John and Agnes Pigg of The Nurseries, Gower Road, Royston. Attested under the “Derby Scheme” (whereby men committed to enlist by a given date) and joined the Machine-gun Corps in April 1916. He was sent out to France in October that year.

Enlisted
Hitchin, April 1916
Died
Thursday, 7th June 1917, aged 21. He was buried where he fell on the Messines Ridge
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Rifleman, 8th Battalion, City of London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
Regimental Number : 372861

Eldest son of John and Agnes Pigg of The Nurseries, Gower Road, Royston. He was sent out to France at the end of January 1917.

Enlisted
London, 6th April 1916
Died
Tuesday, 30th October 1917, aged 30
Memorial
Tyne Cot, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Petty Officer, 1st Class, Royal Navy
Service Number : 104190

Son of Thomas and Eliza Potter, licensee of the 'White Hart', Royston. Born in Royston and married to Alice Mary Potter of Buckland, Portsmouth. They had four children, Olive, William, Reginald, and Muriel.

Enlisted
Portsmouth, 1914
Died
Wednesday, 4th July 1917, aged 55 
Buried
Portsea Cemetery, St Mary’s Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 12th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 42155

Born in Melbourn, near Royston, the son of Adelaide Roberts (formerly Pryor) of East Lytham St. Annes, Lancs. The family lived with her father inQueen’s Road, Royston.

Enlisted
Blackpool (Date not known)
Died
Saturday, 1st June 1918, aged 19
Buried
West Ham Cemetery, London, England
Additional Memorial
St. Annes-on-Sea War Memorial, Lancashire

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 1911

Son of George and Fanny Pulley, The Mount, Royston. Employed by Mr. Dennis of Queens Road and then by Mr. W.H. Hinkins, painter, where he worked for over 14 years. He served with the 1st Herts. Volunteer Battalion. When the Territorial Force was formed he joined the Artillery, later transferring to the Royston ‘E' Company so as to become eligable for the Long Service Medal.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Thursday, 19th November 1914, aged 28
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

You can find out more about Fanck’s journey from home to the fighting near Ypres and his sad death by following this link -

19 Days to Zillebeke
Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 8571

Eldest son of William and Alice Reed of The Mount, Royston. He worked as a labourer in the local cemet works. He served in Africa, Bermuda and Gibraltar. He fought at La Bassée and Ypres.

Enlisted
Bedford, 1914
Died
Tuesday, 30th March 1915, aged 27 
Memorial
Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, ‘A' Company, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 10160

Fourth son of the late James Reeve of Odsey and Sarah Reeve, now of Pix Road, Letchworth. Educated at the Merchant Tailor’s School in Ashwell, he lived in Royston for several years.

Enlisted
Grays, Essex, 1914
Died
Monday, 26th October 1914, aged 19 
Memorial
Le Touret, France 

On the Memorial as P. Reeves

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 203733

Son of Frederic Charles and Catherine Reynolds The Fleet, Royston. He was employed as adomestic gardener.

Enlisted
Hitchin, April 1917
Died
Friday, 22nd March 1918, aged 27
Memorial
Pozières, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 30122

Eldest son of John and Hanna Robinson of The Fleet, Royston. Husband of Annie Robinson and living in Wrexham Terrace, Queens Road, Royston. Prior to enlisting he worked for Messrs Duce and Lilley as house painter. He broke his leg whilst training at Felixstowe and was sent out to France in June 1917, although only partially recovered.

Enlisted
Hitchin, June 1916
Died
Thursday, 16th August 1917, aged 37 
Memorial
Tyne Cot, Belgium 

On the Memorial as I. Robinson

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Regimental Number : G/41588

Son of Jonas and Katherine Saunders of Trinity Street, Stevenage. Employed for nearly five years by Mr. Hann, a hairdresser of Kneesworth Street, Royston. Sent to France about six months after he started training, he was returned to England in March 1917 suffering with dysentery, spending his convalenscence in hospital in Bournemouth and Addington Place, near Croydon. After a short visit to Royston he returned to France in June 1917.

Enlisted
Luton, May 1916.
Died
Friday, 30th November 1917, aged 22
Memorial
Tyne Cot, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 14098

Third son of Stephen and Alice Mary Sharp of Gower Road, Royston. Worked in the gardens of Yew Tree House, Royston and at Cokenach. He was trained at Felixstowe before being sent out to France in May 1915 where he served as a stretcher-bearer.

Enlisted
Royston, August 1914
Died
Thursday, 27th July 1916, aged 22
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 12249

Nephew and adopted son of James and Matilda Frost of the 'William IV’ public house, Baldock Street. He worked, from the age of 14, at the Royston Post Office as a telegraph messenger. He was one of the first men from Royston to sign up for the fighting. Wounded in the thigh by machine gun fire on or about 18th June 1916 he was sent to the Whiston Infirmary, Prescott near Liverpool to recover, coming home on 19th Septemeber for a few days leave before returning to France.

Enlisted
Hertford, August 1914
Died
Sunday, 11th February 1917, aged 23
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, ‘Z' Company, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 20147

Son of Samuel Searby Shaw and Sarah Negus Shaw of Mill Road, Royston. He served eight years in the Royal Garrison Artillery, mostly in the West Indies. He was employed in the gardens at Wimbish Manor, Shepreth prior to re-enlistment.

Re-enlisted
Cambridge, 1915
Died
Friday, 6th October 1916, aged 34. He was severly wounded in the leg on 17th August 1916 and died after an operation in a Frenh Hospital, during which his leg had to be amputated.
Buried
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Walter%20Anderson

Co Sergeant Major, 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment
Regimental Number : 9009

Sister was living in Royston and was a servant to the Banhams family. He was a resident of Baldock.

Enlisted
Warley, Essex, Re-Enlisted August 1914
Died
Saturday, 26th October 1918, aged 28
Buried
St. Souplet British Cemetery Extension, France

Walter%20Anderson

Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery and ‘B' Battery, 77th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Regimental Number : 203032
Formerly Private in R.A.S.C. Remounts
Regimental Number : R/258523

Only son of James and Hanna Maria Stamford of Stamford Yard, Kneesworth Street, Royston. A Lieutenant, writing to his mother, says that he was buried with a comrade near Graincourt, Derchigny, France.

Enlisted
Hitchin, February 1917
Died
Friday, 30th November 1917, aged 25
Memorial
Cambrai, Louveral, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 6070 

Third son of Frederick and Jane Stoten of The Fleet, Royston. Employed by Mr. L.E. Clark of Royston. He went out to France in October 1916.

Enlisted
Hertford, December 1915
Died
Sunday, 7th January 1917 from wounds received during a raid on German trenched on News Year Eve 1916, aged 17.
Buried
Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Private, ‘D' Battalion, Machine-gun Corps (Heavy Branch)
Regimental Number : 70568 

Sone of John and Mary Thomas of the Warren, Royston. Married to Minnie Thomas and living Barkway Road, Royston with two children, Lily and Edmund. Employed as a motor car driver at the Bull Hotel, Royston. He was wounded in the nose and forehead while advancing a tank on 11th Septemebr 1916. He received the Military Medal for his work in the advance.

Enlisted
Hitchin, June 1916
Died
Thursday, 3rd May 1917, aged 27
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 20013

Son of Robert and Mary Thomas of Down Halll, Abington Pigotts. The family moved to Melbourn Street, Royston. Employed at Mr. Salter’s motor works in Baldock Street

Enlisted
Royston, 15th March 1915
Died
Friday, 15th September 1916, aged 18
Memorial
Thiepval, Fran

On the Memorial as Frank Thomas.
The information given here and the photograph shown are believed to be correct but have not been fully verified.

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 16230 

Youngest son of George and Elizabeth Wake of Denmark Cottages, Queens Road, Royston. He was employed in Cambridge and, prior to that, he drove the Great Northern Parcel Delivery Cart in Royston. He was sent out to France in January 1916.

Enlisted
Cambridge, October 1914
Died
Monday, 2nd April 1917 while helping stretcher-bearers attend wounded comrades, aged 19.
Buried
St. Catherine Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 290596

Only son of Ernest Watson and Fanny Mason of Victoria Crescent, Royston. He had been married to Olve Osbourne for 13 months before he died. He was an old member of the Royston ‘E' Company, Hertfordshire Regiment. He had been employed from 1901 until June 1915 (except for a short period) in the printing department of the “Herts. and Cambs. Reporter” but was working in London when he enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment before transferring to the Cambridgshire Regiment.

Enlisted
London, October 1916
Died
Saturday, 17th November 1917 after undergoing an operation in a Brighton Hospital, aged 29.
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston, with military honours.

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, London Regiment (The Rangers)
Regimental Number : 471847

Eldest son of David and Mary Watson of Mill Yard Cottage, Royston. He served five and a half year’s apprenticeship at Messrs. Soundy & Powell, Royston before working in London. He was sent to France on 5th February 1917. He was severly wounded in the thigh, legs and groin on 14th April 1918. He was taken to the American General Hospital at Rouen where his right leg was amputated.

Enlisted
London, 20th January 1916
Died
Wednesday, 17th April 1918, aged 24.
Buried
St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st/4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, (Royal Fusiliers)
Regimental Number : 281954 

Fourth son of James and Harriet Elizabeth Webb of Prospect Cottage, Melbourn Road, Royston. He was working in Barnet when he enlisted. He was sent to Malta in December 1915 and to France soon after Christmas 1916.

Enlisted
Barnet, September 1915
Died
Monday, 9th April 1917, aged 20
Buried
Achicourt Road Cemetery, Achicourt, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 265084

Son of Thomas and Eliza Ann Weston of Royston. He was invalided home in November 1914 suffering from shock following a “Jack Johnson” (an immense shell packed with high explosive) explosion which buried him and three other men. Although extricated quickly, he remained unconsious until he recovered in hospital. He was repatriated to the 4th North General Hospital, Lincoln before returning to Royston and then on to the front lines again. He became time expired but re-enlisted going back to France on 30th November 1915.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Tuesday, 31st July 1917, aged 23
Buried
New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion (Service), attached to 1st/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment

Son of Clara and the late Walter Westwood of Queens Road, Royston, and the adopted son of the surgeon Mr Wightman of Melbourn Street, Royston.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Wednesday, 26th September 1917, aged 23
Memorial
Tyne Cot, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Corporal, 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment
Regimental Number : 202809
Formerly Hertfordshire Regiment and Royston ‘E’ Company
Regimental Number : 265398

Sixth son of William and Sarah ElizabethWhitby of Eagle Tavern Cottages, Barley Road, Royston. Employed to drive Mr. Haggar’s milk cart from Wimpole to Royston and at Burloes Farm. He was a member of the Royston “E” Company and was called up for mobilisation in August 1914. He was sent to France in January 1917 and transferred to the Essex Regiment. He was home on leave on 4th March 1918 returning to France on 17th March, three days before he died. He was married to Florence Winifred with two children, Gladys May and John Andrew, the family living at Burloes Farm.

Enlisted
Royston, 1914
Died
Friday, 22nd March 1918, aged 28
Memorial
Arras, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Regimental Number : 60152
Formerly Bedfordshire Regiment 
Regimental Number 29767

Youngest son of Henry and Naomi Wiggins of Market Hill, Royston. Employed as a coachman to Captain Whitacker, race horse trainer. Husband of Amy with four children, Beatrice, Mabel, Edith and Percy George. He as sent to France on 25th September 1916. Severly wounded by gunshot in the chest on 21st September 1917, he was admitted to hospital at Etaples in France and, at the beginning of October, removed to a conavlescent camp. He was later transferred to the Italian Front were he died. 

Enlisted
Hitchin, 1916
Died
Wednesday, 12th December 1917, aged 33
Buried
Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade, Italy

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 15th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 201496

Youngest son of the Abraham and Ellen Wilkerson of Royston. Employed by the Cambridge Co-operative Society and was a bell ringer at St. John the Baptist Church, Royston. Sent to France in July 1916, he was returned home suffering from entric (an intestinal infection) the following September. On recovery he volunteered for Egypt and was sent out on 15th March 1917. He was wounded in the right arm on 9th March 1918 and spent time in an Egypian hospital before recovering and being sent ot France where he arrived on 1st June 1918.

Enlisted
Cambridge, 2nd April 1916
Died
Wednesday, 16th October 1918, aged 26
Buried
Rue David Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment (Machine-gun Corp)
Regimental Number : L/6044

Son of Rhoda Selina Bonner and the late William Williamson of Royston. He enlisted in 1899 and had a career in the army servive in India and South Africa in the Beor War Campaign.

Enlisted
Hounslow, 1915
Died
Saturday, 25th September 1915, aged 30
Buried
Cambrin Church Yard Extension, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Regimental Number : 51857

Youngest son of Edward and Mary Ann Williamson. Husband of Elizabeth Emma Williamson living at Huntingdon Terrace,  Mill Road, Royston, with six children, Elsie Augusta, Jessie Bertha, George Henry, Stanley Walter, Bertha and Edith. Employed at Messrs. Duce & Lilley, Royston. Sent was to France in August 1915. On 22nd January 1916 his shoulder was smashed by an exploding shell and he was buried under debris for 24 hours. He recouperated in hospital in Boulogne before a time at a convalenscent hospital in Leyton. He was killed in action at Canal du Nord.

Enlisted
Royston, February 1915
Died
Tuesday, 1st October 1918, aged 38
Memorial
Vis-en-Artois. France

Walter%20Anderson

Company Sergeant Major, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 5444

Son of Rhoda Selina Bonner and the late William Williamson of Royston. 

Enlisted
Southwark, 1899, serving 17 years 
Died
Wednesday, 9th August 1916, aged 33
Buried
Potijze Chateau Wood Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Rifleman, 1st/9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
Regimental Number : 7663
Formerly 8th London Regiment (Post Office Riffles)
Regimental Number 5740

Younger son of Thomas and Sarah Witts of Heathfield, Royston. Apprenticed to Mr. J. Course, watchmaker, in Royston and Letchworth. He was sent to France in June 1916.

Enlisted
London, March 1916
Died
Monday, 25th September 1916 by a German bomb, aged 19.
Memorial
Thiepval, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment
Regimental Number : 54510

Second son of Harriet and the late Jacob Woodcock of Wrexham Terrace, Queens Road, Royston. Employed at Royston Brewery for about four years. Trained at Dovercourt and Colchester. He was sent to France on 19th October 1917.

Enlisted
Hitchin, February 1917
Died
Thursday, 21st March 1918, aged 19
Buried
Bellicourt British Cemetery, France

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 10th Battalion, 3rd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Regimental Number : 23432
Formerly Bedfordshire Regiment
Regimental Number : 26028

Elder son of Thomas and Annie Wooding of Banyers Lodge, Kneesworth Street, Royston. Husband of Deborah Wooding of Huntingdon Terrace, Mill Road, Royston. He was sent to France on 1st July 1916. Wounded in the left arm on 3rd September 1916 he spent five months at the County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury. He returned to France on 18th April 1917.

Enlisted
Bedford, February 1916 under the Derby Scheme (where men pledged to enlist at a future date).
Died
Sunday, 23rd September 1917, aged 25
Buried
Westouter Church Yard Extension, Belgium

Walter%20Anderson

Captain, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Second son of Charles and Sarah Woods of Barkway Street, Royston. Educated at Hitchin grammar School and Westminster College. He was a schoolmaster under the London County Council. He went out with the Coldstream Guards in February 1915 and fought at La Bassée. He was offered a Commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 10th July 1915 and promoted to Captain a year later. In February 1917 he effected the capture of 60 prisoners, the act for which he received the Military Cross.

Enlisted
Royston, September 1914 in the Coldstream Guards
Died
Saturday, 14th April 1917, aged 24
Buried
Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, France

Entries for World War 2 - 1939 to 1945

Ackroyd%20 %20Harold

Squadron Leader, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (with 102 Squardon in WW1)
Service Number : 06200

Son of William and Sarah Ballard of the 'North Star' public house (now residential properties) near Royston station. Married Beatrice Louise Gunton Hill in September 1917. The had four children, Jean, Valerie, June and Peter.

Died
Saturday, 12th September 1942. aged 53
Buried
Royston Additional Burial Ground
Memorial
El Alamein, Egypt

Anderson%20 %20Charles

Air Mechanic 2nd Class, Royal Navy, HMS Pergrine
Service Number : FAA/SFX 783

Son of William and Eliza Bavington of Hitchin. Married to Sylvia Olive Fleur West of Old North Road, Royston. They had a son, Darryl. He was employed as signalman at Meldreth railway station.

Died
Sunday, 18th August 1940, aged 23
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston

Walter%20Anderson

Flight Lieutenant, 98 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Service Number : 123194

Son of Ivor Archibald and Nettie Mavilla Brown of Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Married to Betty Cannon, the couple lived at Hyde Hall, near Buntingford and had a son, Malcolm. He received the DFC in 1944 for his navigational skills over many missions with the Bar added in 1945.

Died
Monday, 23rd September 1946, aged 26
Buried
Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service Number : 890220

Son of Claude and Beatrice Chapman of Orchard Road, Royston. Employed at the Alderney Dairy, High Street, Royston. 

Died
Friday, 25th August 1944, aged 24
Buried
Florence War Cemetery, Italy

Walter%20Anderson

Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Lincolshire Regiment
Service Number : 301208
Formerly Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment


Youngest son of Charles Thomas and Ellen Cooper of Lower King Street, Royston. Married Nora Fillingham of Maidstone, Kent where the couple lived with their daughter, Barbara. He was employed as a tailor.

Died
Saturday, 18th September 1943, aged 33
Buried
Salerno War Cemetery, Italy

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 528974

Son of Joseph and Pricilla Cox of Queens Road, Royston. Employed by Mr. C.V. Grundy as a gardener at North Lodge, Kneesworth Street, Royston.

Died
Wednesday, 28th July 1943, aged 25
Memorial
Singapore Memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 134198

Son of Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Darlow of Briary Lane, Royston. He was employed at the Ware branch of the Westminster Bank.

Died
Saturday, 30th October 1943, aged 24
Buried
Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand

Walter%20Anderson

Pilot Officer, Flight Engineer, 186 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Service Number : 189173

Son of Lionel Frederick and Phyllis Etheridge of Taleins, Baldock Road, Royston. Educated at Perse School and employed on A. McMullen's corn and seed merchant business of Royston.

Died
Tuesday, 27th February 1945, aged 24
Buried
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany

Walter%20Anderson

Able Seaman, Royal Navy, HMS Achates
Service Number : C/SSX 27101

Son of Leonard George and Eleanor Maud Hales of Stakepiece Road, Royston.

Died
Thursday, 31st December 1942, aged 22
Memorial
Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, England

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 5836251

Born Peter Chapman in Kneesworth, his mother married Frank Hines (and he adopted his stepfather’s name). The family lived in Coronation Avenue, Royston.

Died
Saturday, 14th February 1942, aged 21
Buried
Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Gunner, 135th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry), Royal Artillery, 18th Division
Service Number : 921427

Youngest son of William and Rosa Florence Hockey of Green Street, Royston. Married to Elizabeth Winifred Jennings with a son, Edward Walter. Employed at the Farmers Manure Co Ltd, Royston.

Died
Saturday, 14th February 1942, aged 34
Memorial
Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 5832146

Son of William and Elizabeth Holloway of The Fleet, Royston. Married Louisa May Holloway and lived at Mackerel Hall, Royston with their three children, Shirley, Rita and Jeffery. He was employed as a butcher.

Died
Thursday, 21st September 1944, aged 30
Memorial
Singapore Civil Hospital Grave Memorial, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Flight Saereant, Warrant Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Service Number : 1443034

Son of John George and Dora Isalella James of The Warren, Royston. Employed by H. Chapman as a painter and decorator.

Died
Sunday, 15th October 1944, aged 22
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston

Walter%20Anderson

Sergeant, 37 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reseve
Service Number : 1381642

Son of George and Ellen Annie Lake of Old North Road, Royston. Married Doris White living at Mill Road, Royston. He taught at Queens Road Schools, Royston.

Died
Saturday, 6th February 1943, aged 29
Memorial
El Alamein Memorial, Egypt

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Service Number : 5933537

Son of Frank and Mildred O’Driscoll of Serby Avenue, Royston. Employed as a plumber at Duce and Lilly, Kneesworth Street, Royston.

Died
Monday, 5th August 1940, aged 20
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston

Walter%20Anderson

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service Number : 5833853

Son of Samuel and Louisa Palmer of Rock Road, Royston. Married Margaret Woodcock. The couple lived at 4 Old North Road, Royston. Employed at Smith and Sons flour mill next to Royston railway station and served as a special constable.

Died
Wednesday, 20th September 1944, aged 32
Buried
Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy

Walter%20Anderson

Able Seaman, Royal Navy, HMS Penolver
Service Number : D/JX 239805

Adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Evans of London Road, Royston. Married to Florence Hoare at Ware. They has a son, Keith and, at the time of his death, were living in Hoddesdon.

Died
Tuesday, 19th October 1943, aged 26
Buried
St John’s Anglican Cemetery, St. John’s City East, Newfoundland, Canada

Walter%20Anderson

Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Service Number : 5933285

Son of Joseph Henry and Lily Olive Reynolds of Green Street, Royston.

Died
Tuesday, 6th February 1940, aged 27
Buried
Royston Church Additional Burial Ground, Royston

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, Hallamshire Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Service Number : 14272269

Son of William Arthur and Eleanor Fanny Stamford of High Street, Melbourn. Husband of Lillian Maude Day living at 7 High Street, Melbourn. Employed at the Priory Cinema and at Bannister’s Nurseries, Melbourn Road, Royston.

Died
Sunday, 5th November 1944, aged 24
Buried
Roosendal-en-Nispen Roman Catholic Cemetery, Netherlands

Walter%20Anderson

Chief Petty Officer Cook, Royal Navy, HMS Arethusa
Service Number : C/M 35969

Son of Stephen and Sarah Ward of Royston. Married Annie Ethel Ashby of Gillingham, Kent where the couple lived with their two children.

Died
Thursday, 19th November 1942, aged 41
Buried
At sea
Memorial
Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, England

Photograph courtesy of Sally and Denis Tokley

Walter%20Anderson

Gunner, 31 Coastal Battery, Royal Artillery
Service Number : 1772940

Son of Joseph and Hannah West of Lankester Road, Royston. He was a jobbing gardener.

Died
Tuesday, 23rd February 1943, aged 28
Buried
Kokopo Island New Britain Cemtaery, Papua New Guinea
Memorial
Singapore Memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Private, 4th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 5779733

Son of Mr. and Mrs. West of Coronation Avenue, Royston. Married to Elsie Law, the couple lived at Kneesworth Street and he was employed at the Farmers Manure Co. Ltd. Royston.

Died
Wednesday, 11th February 1942, aged 26
Memorial
Singapore Memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Island

Walter%20Anderson

Craftsman, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Service Number : 10530730

Son of Charlotte Murray and Albert Prime Whitby (employed as a porter, died 1913). Charlotte then married George Ellis in 1917 at Royston. The family lived at “Eagle Tavern”, Barkway Road.

Died
Sunday, 17th June 1945, aged 33
Buried
Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria

Walter%20Anderson

Lance Corporal, 7th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Service Number : 14429613

Son of John and Emily May Woods of Mill Road, Royston. Employed by Messrs, Goddard and Dellar and Messrs, Pepper and Hayward, Royston.

Died
Friday, 6th October 1944, aged 20
Buried
Cesena War Cemetery, Italy

Walter%20Anderson

Private, Transport Section, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, 18th Division
Service Number : 5933266

Son of Arthur William and Annie Wright of Queens Road, Royston. Employed as a postman in Royston.

Died
Tuesday, 30th November 1943, aged 24
Buried
Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand