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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Renforth Walter
|Army number=4456748
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=11/12/1916 - registered January 1917, Gateshead.
|Age=23 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the The Durham Light Infantry, Territorial Army, probably in Spring 1939, judging by his Regimental Number.  Posted to ? 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the 12th Battalion DLI 1/9/1939.  Posted back to the 9th Battalion - date not known.  Served in the B.E.F. in France.  Killed in Action 30/5/1940 with 9th Durham Light Infantry.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 30/5/1940.  Son of the late Walter and MaryEllen Renforth.  Buried Grave 2. D. 13 in Solferino Farm Cemetery.  Inscription reads - "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR SON.  GOD TAKES THE ONES THAT HE LOVES BEST.  R.I.P."  No information available on initial interment.
|Home address=According to the 1939 General Register he lived with his family at 38 Leopold Street, Gateshead and worked as an Iron Moulder. 
|Image Name=Walter_Renforth_12_DLI.jpeg
|Image Title=Private Walter Renforth
}}


Private Renforth's brother - William Ridley Renforth - also served in the 12th Battalion but. along with virtually the whole of the Battalion, was transferred to the Black Watch and posted to 1st Tyneside Scottish on 1/2/1940.  His page can be found on the Page for that Battalion at [http://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/wiki/Renforth_William_Ridley_Pte_4456375].