Name
Norman Leyland Fielden
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/02/1919
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Garrison Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
Plot A, Row 2, Grave 148.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford,
Berkhamsted Collegiate School Memorial,
Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book
Pre War
Son of Theodore John Valentine and Julia Anne (nee SAMPSON) FIELDEN.
His parents married 29 January 1887 at Christ Church, Islington, London. Julia died 1943 in Watford aged 83, and was buried 15 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery; Theodore died 8 June 1955 in East Grinstead, Surrey, aged 92.
Norman was born 20 November 1891 in Harringay, London, and baptised 28 February 1892 at St Paul’s, Harringay. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, Herts, and was buried 28 February.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Watford, with his mother and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a punlisher’s clerk aged 19, he still lived in Watford, with his mother and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He was originally in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Chief Petty Officer AA/1290, who issued him the British War medal. At some point he transferred to the Artillery, where he was promoted 19 March 1917 from Officer’s Cadet to 2nd Lieutenant. He died at the V.A.D. Hospital, Dover, Kent.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Norman in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 1 March 1919.
Norman grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
IN PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
NORMAN LEYLAND FIELD AND LIEUT. R.G.A. WHO SERVED HIS COUNTRY THROUGHOUT THE GREAT WAR AND MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE ON THE 22ND FEBRUARY 1919, AGED 27.
Devoted Son, Loving Brother, True Friend
ONE OF GOD'S GREAT WHITE MEN.
“Not dead only fitted for a new uniform to parade before the king.”
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
