Walter Frank Maidment

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Walter Frank Maidment was born in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, on 20 October, 1895, and baptised at St. Martin's Church, Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 5 January, 1896, the son of Walter Maidment and Alice Lily Maidment (nee Burt). He lived his early life in Sixpenny Handley until enlisting with the 18th Royal Hussars (5th Reserve Cavalry) as a Private (Service No. 19606). He served in France and Flanders from 18 May 1915 and later joined his unit based at Trimulgherry, Deccan, India, where he was registered on the 1921 Census. He had been awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star. During his time in India he had married Mahala Maidment. The 1939 Register shows him living at Kennel Cottage, Hammersley Lane, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, working as a Gardener. He died in High Wycombe during 1987.