The funeral took place on Monday at Locksbrook Cemetery, with military honours, of Gunner Wm. Dallimore, B Battery, RFA, 88th Brigade, who died on Friday at the Kingswood School VA Hospital. Deceased, who was a single man, 32 years of age, living at 2 Spa Gardens, Larkhall, joined the Army only eight or ten months ago, and was brought to hospital less than a month ago, suffering from an incurable complaint…

The family mourners were Mr Frank Dallimore (brother), Private George Dallimore, 4th Somersets (brother), Mrs Frederick Dallimore (sister-in-law)…

[Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette – Saturday 21 August 1915]

There is little concrete information about the early life of William Dallimore. The Army Register of Soldiers’ Effects name his siblings as his beneficiaries, and so it seems that his parents had passed away before war broke out. There are no census records matching his name with the brothers confirmed in the newspaper article, and so it is impossible to get definite information about his birth or parentage.

Only the first page of Gunner Dallimore’s service records remain, but this still provides some details about him. He enlisted on 14th August 1914, a matter of weeks into the conflict, giving up his job as a painter to do so.

While his brigade would go on to serve at the Somme and Ypres, there is no evidence that William saw any action overseas. In fact, the hospital to which he was admitted was in Bath itself, so it may be that he was based near the city.

William Dallimore passed away on 13th August 1915. He was laid to rest in Bath’s sweeping Locksbrook Cemetery.

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