Private Richard Walton

Service Number: 118522

Labour Company (formerly of King's Liverpool Regiment)

Died of Pneumonia 19th June 1917

Son of Mrs. & Mrs. Walton, 3 Pheasantford Street, Burnley

From the Burnley Express dated 6th July 1918:  VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA

Distressing news has reached Mr. & Mrs. Walton of 3 Pheasantford Street, Burnley of the death, from pneumonia on June 19th, of their son, Pte. Richard Walton 118522, of a Labour Company, in France.  His death occurred just a week after his 20th birthday.  

Pte. Walton first enlisted in July 1916, in the King's Liverpool Regt., and in February 1917 was invalided to England with dysentery, and was a long time in hospital.  On leaving hospital he was not fit for the line, and was drafted to a Labour Battalion, and went out again, exactly a year after his first going out - on September 1st.  He recently contracted pneumonia, and died in hospital in France.  Formerly he was a carter for a firm of Corporation contractors, and was a member of the Boy's Brigade at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Ivy Street.  There is another brother, William, serving with the R.A.M.C. in France.

Buried in St. Hilaire Cemetery & Extension, France