Walter William Harper

A Deck Hand with the Royal Naval Reserve, Walter died on 15th of April 1917 at the age of 29. 

Walter was born at Lowestoft on 18 March 1888, a son of Arthur and Hannah Harper. He was baptised at Christchurch, Lowestoft, on 11 April 1888, and his family lived at Strand Cottages. In 1891 they were living at 54 Whapload Road, and this was still their home in 1901, by which time Walter was working as an errand boy. By 1915 his family lived at 46 Whapload Road, and later at 11 Anguish Street, Lowestoft.

Walter joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 11 January 1915. He served with trawlers in the Dover Patrol but, on 3 April 1915 was discharged medically unfit as he was suffering from nephritis. 

William's brother Theophilus served in the Suffolk Regiment and died in 1916.