WALTER EPHRAIM WYARTT
Walter is not remembered on a memorial in Ipswich.
Born: 1906, Ipswich.
Died: 24th May 1940; age: 33; killed during the retreat to Dunkirk.
Rank: Warrant Officer III/ Platoon Sergeant Major; Service Number: 5823511.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion.
Memorial Reference:
Column 45.
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Walter Edward and Annie Elizabeth Wyartt, of Burstall, Suffolk; husband of Violet Amelia Wyartt, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1911 Boxted, Essex.
Walter was 4 years old and living with his parents & sister.
Walter Edward Wyartt, 32, a Horseman on a Farm, born Burstall, Suffolk.
Annie Elizabeth Wyartt (nee Wisby), 26, born Ipswich.
Annie Eva Wyartt, 2, born Ipswich.
1921 Burstall, Suffolk.
Walter was 15 years old and employed as a helper for the stockman of Mr. Denman, a farmer of White House, Burstall. He lived with his parents and siblings.
Walter Wyartt, 43 years & 6 months old, a Carman for R. & W. Paul – Maltsters of Key Street, Ipswich.
Annie Wyartt, 35 years & 11 months old, Home Duties.
Annie Wyartt, 13 years old, at School.
Lily May Wyartt, 8 years & 4 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Ethel Grace Wyartt, 7 years & 3 months old, at School, born Ipswich – died 1931, Ipswich.
Frederick William Wyartt, 3 years & 7 months old, born Burstall.
Arthur Charles Wyartt, 16 months old, born Burstall.
Elsie Wyartt, 4 months old, born Burstall.
In 1937, in Burstall, Suffolk, Walter married Violet Amelia Moore, born March 1913, in Burstall, Suffolk – daughter of Frederick Henry Moore, a groom, and Maud Adelaide Moore (nee Sharman), of George Street, Hintlesham, Suffolk.
Violet and Walter had one son.
ENGLAND and WALES REGISTER 1939
Walter’s wife, Violet, and son, Brian, lived at Gibraltar Barracks, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion.
October 1939: France.
May/June 1940: The Battalion were evacuated from Dunkirk and returned to the UK.
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