Name
Cecil Farmborough (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/52087
Middlesex Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 113 to 115.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Leavesden Village Memorial (original now replaced), Leavesden Village Memorial (New 2014), All Saints Church Memorial, Leavesden Green
Pre War
Son of Herbert & Mary Farmborough.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database (SDITGW) records Cecil as born and living in Leavesden, Herts. when he enlisted in Watford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 32285, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Killed in action
Additional Information
*1 Appears as 'Farnborough' on the Leavesden memorials and 'Farmborough' in the CWGC and SDITGW databases, however no other record for a 'C A Farnborough' has been found. There are also two apparent errors in the inscription on the family grave (detailed below); officially he died on the 16th and not the 19th of October, and also the family obviously believed that was buried, however he, or his grave, was lost and he is commeorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Cecil is also commemorated on a family grave in Layston Churchyard Extension. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO THEIR (Herbert & Mary) SON CECIL ALEXANDER [Farmborough] FELL IN FLANDERS, OCT. 19. 1917, AGED 19 BURIED AT POELCOPPEELLE.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
