1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
Walter Roy Tosswill was born in 1894 to Walter and Edith who lived in Clayhill, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. His family later moved to Cheltenham where they initially lived at The Oaklands and later Rosehill before going on to reside in the small village of Woolstone just north of Cheltenham. In 1907 he entered Cheltenham College and then went on to Sandhurst.
Serving as Captain in the 1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, Walter was wounded during the Somme offensive and sadly never recovered, dying of these wounds on 12 August 1916; he was 22.
Captain Walter Roy Tosswill is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, just outside Poperinge, Belgium. There is a memorial to Captain Tosswill in Woolstone Church, but unfortunately, he is not commemorated on the Cheltenham Memorial.
Woolstone Church memorial