Also Served: Walter Hodgson Callaghan - Walter Hodgson CALLAGHAN
5 Duke Street, Prescot Private 3/72762, 49th Training Reserve Battalion At a medical examination on 2nd March 1917, Walter was found to have defective vision and his attestation was postponed for 12 months. He eventually attested to the Training Reserve on 14th June 1918. He was single, aged 18, and worked as a Collier. His next of kin was his mother, Margaret, at the same address.
Walter was then called up for service on 7th August and on 9th October 1918, he was transferred to work at Ravenhead Colliery at Sutton Hall. He was then discharged and demobilised on 17th January 1919. He did not serve overseas.
He married Catherine Reynolds in 1925 and they had two children, John (1925) and Margaret (1931).
The 1939 National Register (below), listed the family at 84 Milton Street, St Helens, with Walter employed as a Colliery Hewer
(Additional research by John Yates)Ref. No.: A0255
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