Walter Samuel Bucknole

A Seaman with H.M.S. Cressy. Walter died on 22nd of September 1914 at the age of 21. 

Walter was born at Lowestoft on 4 March 1893, a son of Frank and Harriet Bucknole. In 1891 his family lived at 78 Norwich Road. By 1914 they were living at 43 Stanford Street and later lived at 44 Windsor Road, Lowestoft.

Walter joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 14 March 1912. 

In 1912 he worked on the trawler Nimrod, LT 589; Glory, LT 1027; and in 1913 the Twelve YH 562; and the Coronella LT 36. 

Walter was called out for service at the start of the First World War and in early August 1914 joined H.M.S. Cressy. 

On 28 August 1914 H.M.S. Cressy was part of the British naval force at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, but took no active part in the battle. On 22 September H.M.S. Cressy, sailing with sister ships Aboukir and Hogue, were in the Broad Fourteens area of the North Sea when each ship was sunk by torpedoes from German submarine U-9. A total of 560 men, including Walter, were killed in the loss of the Cressy.