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Walter was the son of Charles Dyment and Abigail Brooks, born on the Island in 1888. Walter's mother died when he was two. and his father remarried, so Walter was raised by his father and step-mother, Joanna Brooks. He went out west as a young man.

Before the war, Walter had been working in Winnipeg as a store clerk. He married Jessie Carmichael in 1914 in Winnipeg. Walter enlisted a year later.

Walter's letter to his younger sister Edna was printed in a local Island newspaper. He had just come back from the front, and had been very happy to find a parcel of food from his family waiting.

His gravestone says "Pte. Walter H. Dyment died a prisoner of war in Germany 1918 at 30." The war record said that he had been reported missing after an action in 1917, and that his death had later been confirmed by the Germans.

According to census records, he and his wife Jessie had no children. After the war, Jessie married George Lavis in 1922 in Manitoba.

Service Number: 460283
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 27th Bn.

Date and Place of Birth: June 27, 1889 Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date and Place of Enlistment: August 25, 1915 Winnipeg, Canada
Commemorated on Page 232 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Burial Information:
Cemetery: VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais,France Cemetery Plan
Location: Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:

TO THE VALOUR OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN MEMORY OF THEIR SIXTY THOUSAND DEAD THIS MONUMENT IS RAISED BY THE PEOPLE OF CANADA

Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.

name: Walter Dymant
event type: Census, event date: 1916
event place: Manitoba, Canada
age: 27
ethnicity: English
birthplace: Prince Edward Island, birth year (estimated): 1889
province: Manitoba
district number: 13 Winnipeg Centre
digital folder number: 004363961
image number: 00292
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Walter Dymant M 27y Prince Edward Island
wife Jessie Dymant F 27y Manitoba
Citing this Record: "Canada Census, 1916," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMPS-XF8 : accessed 04 Mar 2013), Walter Dymant, 1916.

Dyment, Walter H. (Pte.)
Island Farmer - 1 May 1918, page 5, col. 1