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293751 13th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Walter Cook was born in Hampshire near Odiham in 1885, one of nine known children of William March and Lucy Ann Cook. His father was an insurance agent and by 1901 the family had moved to Harsnett Road in Colchester before they moved to Sudbury to 9 Girton Terrace in Prince Street.
At the age of 26 Walter was living in Slough, Buckinghamshire where he was employed as a shop assistant. He enlisted and served with the Middlesex Regiment. It is not known when he joined his battalion which formed part of 73rd Brigade, 24th Division.
In November 1918 the Allies began their final advance in Picardy, this was the hardest fought of all the final offensive actions and the battalion saw action at the Battle of Valenciennes (1 – 2 November) when the town was recaptured and Mons (where it had all began for the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914) was finally liberated.
Walter died aged 33 on 10 November 1918, the day before the Armistice and lies buried in Maubeuge-Centre Cemetery, Nord, France. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in October 2012.
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