Walter Frederick George Cullum

A Lance Corporal with 50th Company, Walter died on 2nd of March 1916 at the age of 18. 

Walter was born at Lowestoft in 1897, a son of Walter William and Agnes Ann Cullum. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 27 August 1897. His family lived at 24 Crown Street and by 1901 they were living at 34 Mariners Street. By 1911 Walter's family were living at 80 Queens Road, Lowestoft, and Walter worked as a fish hawker.

Walter enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft and joined the Suffolk Regiment, number 18723. Later he transferred to serve with the Machine Gun Corps, number 3552. 

On 2 March 1916, 50 Company were providing machine-gun support for The Bluff and Spoilbank positions near Ypres. At 4.10 a.m. the British artillery laid down a bombardment to cover the British attack on The Bluff. The machine-guns of 50 Company provided indirect fire from all of their emplacements. German retaliatory fire continued throughout the day and several emplacements and dug-outs were knocked out by the shelling: the Company's position at Spoilbank was subject to particularly heavy bombardment.

The Company lost five men killed, including Walter, and two wounded.