April 1917
War diary records that in April 1917 he fought at Monchy-le-Preux and was killed in action in St Laurent Blangy. He is commemorated on Arrras Memorial (no known grave). The photographs below were taken by me at Monchy and Blangy on 23 June 2015.
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He is commemorated on Arras Memorial to the Missing - Part XXIV - WINTER, Rfn. William, S/30753. 13th Bn The Rifle Brigade. 23rd April 1917. Age 35. Son of the late Thomas and Sarah Mary Winter ; husband of the late Daisy Beatrice Winter.
The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave.
The adjoining cemetery contains over 2,650 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 10 of which are unidentified.
We visited the memorial on 23rd June 2015 and put a poppy cross, inscribed "William Winter RIP" at the foot of the wall on which he is commemorated. We took the following photos of the memorial and cemetery.
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.