SPRATTON LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY


Private W A WARWICKS

6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment


W A Warwicks volunteered in July 1915 and was sent overseas with the Bedfordshire Regiment in December 1916.  He took part in very heavy fighting at the Battles of Loos, Arras and Vimy Ridge before being severely wounded in March 1917 on the Somme. He was repatriated to hospital and finally invalided out of the army in December 1917. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

His family included a tribute to him in the National Roll of the Great War, and his address is given as Spratton, Northamptonshire.  However, we have been unable to confirm this or to gather any more information about him.

He was not in Spratton for the census in 1921.

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