History while in the forces
23 Nov 1915: joined Queen's Westminster Rifles as a Rifleman. Trained at Kingston-on-Thames and left for Purfleet; afterwards Winchester08 Apr 1916: arrived at Rouen
01 Jul 1916: wound in left shoulder and taken prisoner in battle of Gommecourt Wood
23 Jul 1916: arrived at Ohrdruf, Saxony
20 Jul 1917: operation on shoulder
07 Dec 1917: arrived at Mannheim for exchange
29 Dec 1917: arrived at Auchun for exchange through Ireland
07 Jan 1918: arrived at Boston, Lincolnshire and at Tooting Military Hospital
- Surname
- Dorsett
- Forename
- Walter Herbert
- Rating or rank
- Rifleman
- Regiment or Other Unit
- B Company 1/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
- Branch
- Head Office
- Date of Birth
- 12 Jan 1897
- Date of birth
- 1897
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 12 Mar 1914
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 23 Nov 1915
