J W Porter
Bugler 9137
“G” Company 2nd Battalion
Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Division 69
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J W Porter was the son of Mr and Mrs F. Porter of Reading and the husband of Emily Walker (nee Porter) of 449, Brooklyn Street, St. James’, Winnipeg, Canada. He died of wounds on 14th September 1915. He is commemorated on his parents grave, number 18168.
Bugler Porter is buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Location Plot I. D. 99.
Chocques lies north west of Bethune near Gonnheim. From late autumn 1914 to the end of the war Chocques was occupied by the British. The graves in Plot I were on men who died of wounds in No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station which was posted in the village. The officers were buried in Plot V. The casualties would have been fighting on the Bethune front.