Name
Albert Edward Victor Timson (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/11/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
73321
Royal Field Artillery
125th Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Plot XII, Row T, Grave 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of Sarah (formerly SMITH, nee PIGGINS) TIMSON, and (the late ?) Samuel SMITH.
His parents married 29 August 1881 at Holy Trinity and St Edmund’s, Horfield, Glos. Samuel presumably died, and Sarah remarried 2 November 1986 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts, to Lewis TIMSON. Lewis died 1930 in Watford aged 70, and was buried 26 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Sarah died 1941 in Watford aged 79, and was buried 18 April, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Albert SMITH was born 23 June 1894 in Watford, and baptised 25 September 1899 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, the son of Lewis and Sarah SMITH (!).
On the 1901 Census, [Albert SMITH] aged 6 he lived in Oxhey, with his mother, step-father and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, [Albert SMITH] a golf caddie aged 16, he lived in Watford, with his mother, step-father and five siblings.
Officially recorded as born and enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
*1 It is believed that Albert Smith served as Albert Edward Victor Timson,
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 23 August 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Albert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. Recorded as TIMSON A E B in the Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
