WALTER JAMES HARPER

Walter is not remembered on the war memorial at Christchurch Park.

Born: 1917, Ipswich.

Died: 13th July 1943; age: 25.

Rank: Driver; Service Number: 2000408.

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 233 Field Coy.

Memorial Reference:

Panel 3.

Cassino Memorial,

Italy.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Walter James Harper, of 286, London Road, Ipswich & Lucy Martha Harper; husband of Margaret N. Harper, of Nelson, Lancashire.

Father: Walter James Harper, born September 1890, Ipswich. A Maintenance Carpenter.

Mother: Lucy Martha Harper (nee Clark), born Bermondsey, London – died 1939, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1921   66, Surbiton Road, Ipswich.

Walter was 3 years and 9 months old and lived with his parents, siblings and widowed paternal grandfather.

Walter Harper, 30 years & 9 months old, Government Training at Barham Training Centre, Barham House, Claydon, Suffolk.

Lucy Harper, 28 years & 3 months old, Home Duties.

Cecil Frederick Walter James Harper, 8 years & 7 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Frederick Harper, 7 years & 11 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Lucy Margaret Harper, 2 years & 11 months old, born Ipswich.

Joseph Clark, 60 years & 5 months old, a General Labourer for R. & W. Paul – Corn Merchants, of Key Street, Ipswich.

In 1941, North Radstock, Somerset, Walter married Margaret Nora Fricker, born March 1922, Clutton, Somerset, of 12, Lansdown Crescent, Clutton, Somerset.