Cemetery: Loos Memorial
Country: France
Area: Pas De Calais
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Army
Official Number:
Unit: Gazetted to 3rd Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment attd. 2nd Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment.
Country of Service: British
Details: Killed while leading his men in action at Loos. 22nd April 1917. Age 23. Also served in 19th Bn. (Public Schools Brigade) Royal Fusiliers (1915) transferred to O.T.C. 1916. M.P.S. Chemist. Younger son of the late Ex-Inspector of Police Walter Whitehurst of Rugeley Stafford. Educated at Rugeley Grammar School and the Westminster College of Pharmacy. Panel 103 to 105.
Photograph by Op Tribute2