Other Information:Walter entered the war on the 27th August 1914. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal "For conspicuous gallantly and initiative on the 26th April 1915, at Ypres. Private Fitch was marching with a column of transports which was under very heavy shell fire. The driver of a cart was shot, and the horses started to bolt, when he with great courage stopped the horses and brought the cart along, thereby averting a block and congestion of traffic, which under heavy shell fire would undoubtedly have les to great loss of life and stores." Walter gained his commission on the 26th June 1917.
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