G/9311 Private Walter Alfred Cheeseman of the 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died in England before he had a chance to fight overseas. His number indicates that he joined the Royal West Kents in late August or early September 1915, and he died on the 5th February 1916, probably as a result of sickness.
Walter was the son of Walter and Elizabeth Cheeseman of Sevenoaks in Kent, and he is buried in the churchyard of St Peter's and St Paul's church in Shoreham. He was probably around twenty years old at the time of his death, as he appears on the 1901 census as a four-year-old child living with his parents at London Road, Farningham, Kent.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, WO363)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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