Corporal Walter James Hyett
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Hyett,
Walter James
Date of birth: 1880-06-29
Place of birth: Wiveliscombe Somerset England
Next of kin: Eva Agness Hyett, wife. Church Street, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Engineer
Occupation (normalized): Other Engineers
Address:
54 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-11-08
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Nine Elms British Cemetery (Belgium), VIII. E. 23.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 1081351
Highest Rank:
Corporal
Rank detail
Corporal (Army). ? to 1917-11-08
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Killed by shell fire South West of Passchendael
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 136883
LAC ID:
487333
Service file: B4676-S002
Uploader's Notes:
Husband of Eva Agnes Hyett of Wiveliscombe, Somerset.
Herbert Hill White's WWI War Diary notes for Nov 9, 1917 (but should be for the 8th:)
"Nov. 9 - Worked on new line from Gray Ruin Junction to Zonnebeke. Platoon had narrow escape when one of the German airmen dived through the clouds and dropped a bomb close to the grade we were working on but some how we all escaped. A lad of No. 4 Coy was killed on the job today and one of No. 4 Platoon (our Coy) killed near the "Bottle Corner"."
Uploader's Research notes:
Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948" database
[Corporal Army Canadian Railway Troops 2nd Railway Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2021-04-19