Walter Bagley died as a direct result of his service in the First World War but has not been recognised until now. He is not remembered in his home village of Wing despite being buried in the churchyard. Walter was the son of Arthur and Alice Bagley and worked as a gardener in the village before the war but when he joined up he was described as a railway shunter. He enlisted in Derby a month after the war began, on 9 September 1914, initially under the name of Walter Bailey, a name which had been used by his family. The National Archives shows he formally corrected his name to Bagley in March 1915. Walter first served with the 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), but later transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment. He married Nellie Green, also from Wing, on 29 October 1915, and the following month on the 26 November he was posted to India. It is not known whether Nellie went out with him but two months after his posting she gave birth to a baby girl, their only child. It seems Walter spent the entire war as part of the British garrison in India and did not see action on a battlelfield. Nearly a year after the end of the war, he set off for England and after a six week journey arrived back in Britain. He came home to Wing on 22 November, almost five years to the day that he left. Less than six months later he was dead, aged 27. He died in the Cottage Hospital in Oakham with his death certificate showing the cause as being a tropical abcess. His granddaughter Ann says Nellie was present at the time. Ann had always been told his death was a result of his war service. But because Walter had been officially demobbed from the army he does not qualify for a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone although Nellie did receive a war pension from the government. Walter's grave is behind St Peter's Church and close to his parents, yet another Rutland soldier but one who until now has not had his story told. Walter's cousin Arthur Baines from Wing was also killed in the First World War as was another relative in the village, Edwin Hubbard, to whom he was related through their grandfather.