6865 Pte Walter Thomas Kell, 2nd Bn, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

790 British soldiers died on the 21st October 1914 and Walter Kell was one of these men. He was 6865 Pte Walter Thomas Kell of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry.

Walter certainly had been a regular soldier who had originally joined the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry in 1901. Unless he had extended his period of service with the army he would have completed his seven years with the Colours and five on the Reserve by the time Britain went to war. Nevertheless, he must have been in khaki again pretty soon after 4th August 1914 because ten days later he was in France.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 31 years old and the brother of Mrs. Rose Woollett of 14 Norcutt Road, Twickenham in Middlesex.

Walter Kell has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission