Walter’s World War I attestation papers say he was born July 14, 1894, and was a carpenter. His attestation papers are from January 16, 1915. He was 6’, 0.5” tall, of dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair. He served in the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CMR). He was transferred to the 2nd CMR in Shorncliffe on September 19, 1915, and landed in France September 22, 1915. He attended bomb school in July of 1916, and was wounded on July 14 in an accident (gunshot wound to his right arm from the papers, but his families history says it was from a grenade), but was able to rejoin his unit by July 18. He was wounded in action on November 23, 1916 (multiple gunshot wounds, including to the head, listed as “dangerously wounded”). He was reported as being “Still severely ill, but slightly better” on December 3. He took a turn for the worse, and they amputated his right arm on December 17, but he died of his wounds December 18, 1916. He had signed a small will, willing his property to his mother, on September 21, 1915.He also appears on his parent’s tombstone in St. George’s Hawthorne Cemetery, in Ottawa, Ontario.