Walter Charles Dickens
In 1911 he was working has a carter for a timber merchant and was living in Crookes, Sheffield.
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Parents: Charles and Eliza Dickens lived in Grantham
Married Annie in 1902 but she died in 1909 and they had one child Edith Annie in 1903. He married Mary Drabble on 14th April 1911. They had 3 children Maurice on 30/11/1911, Constance Mary on 3/3/1913 and Irene on 21/9/1914. Mary married Harry Lambert in 1922. After Walter's death Mary had moved back in with her parents and Harry was a boarder in the their household.
Edith didn't live with Walter after her mother's death she went to live with her paternal grand parents Charles and Eliza Dickens in Grantham.
Walter stood only 5ft 3 inches tall.
He was stationed at Clipstone Camp when he had a series of epileptic fits.
Medical Officers Report:
M.O. called at 1.15pm on December 15th 1915. He was lying in his hut unconscious and in convulsions of an epiletic form and character. He was at once sent to Clipstone Camp Hospital and died the following day in condition of Status Epiletious.
The only history obtained was from his comrades who stated he had an attack of a similar character a week or more previous to his death (15/12/1915) and was unconscious for nearly a hour, otherwise he was a healthy man and had never complained of any illness.
CWGC site gives his date of death has 20th of December but the M.O implies it was the 16th.
Clipston Camp was a very large training and transit camp set up just after the war started and those who died there were either buried in the churchyard of St Alban's Church, Forest Town or at Nottingham Road Cemetery, Mansfield.
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