BATCHELOR, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, 1/6th (Territorial) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, only s. of James Edward Batchelor, of 16, Calverley Street, Tunbridge Wells, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of (-) Smart; b. Tunbridge Wells, co. Kent, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. King Charles’s School there was employed at Messrs. Truscotts & Sons, Printers, Tonbridge; joined the Durham Light Infantry 7 July, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 April, 1918; was taken prisoner during the fighting in the Champagne sector 27 May following, and died a prisoner of war at Worms, Germany, 24 Oct. of the same year, of dysentery. Buried there. He m. at St. James’s, Tunbridge Wells, 2 Aug. 1913 Edith Louisa (126, St. Mary’s Road, Tonbridge), dau. of the late Edward Henry Keys, and had a son, Ronald Edward, b. 5 April, 1916.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5