Name
Cornelius Charles Farrow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/25592
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
19th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVIII. F. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Datchworth memorials
Pre War
Born on 18 December 1875 in Datchworth, Herts to Charles and Jane Farrow and baptised in Tewin, Welwyn on 9 April 1876. Sadly his father died in 1876 and by 1881 the family were living at the The Duck at Datchworth, where his mother was a beer house keeper. They later moved to Ranelagh Road, Tottenham by 1891 and Cornelius was working as a Builders Labourer.
On the 1911 Census he was living as a Boarder at 66 Shrubbery Road, Lower Edmonton, Middlesex working as General Labourer. His mother and sister were living at Richmond Road, Tottenham.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Edmonton, Middlesex. Killed in action.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £10 awarded to his mother Jane.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
