Name
Archibald Henry Waller
7/03/1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35338
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY
II. A. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Langleybury Village Memorial. St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Herts. Oxhey, Herts War Memorial. St Paul's Church Langleybury, Herts. Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
Pre War
Archibald Henry Waller, born on 7th
March 1883 in Watford, Herts, the son of Henry Charles Waller, a Domestic
Gardener and Eliza Waller, (nee Doggett), one of five children, Alice (Born
1877), Elizabeth (B 1879), Gertrude (B 1881), and Francis (B 1887).
Archibald attended Langleybury
Primary school, St Andrews Boys School, Watford and Callowland Board School,
Watford.
1891 Census records Archibald aged 8,
at School, living with his parents and four siblings at Lady Caples Cottage, Hempstead
Road, Watford.
1901 Census records Archibald aged
18, employed as a domestic baker, living at home with his parents and three siblings,
at Lady Caples Cottage, Watford.
In 1910 his father Henry
died in Watford aged 63, later that year Archibald married Lily Elizabeth Dell
a domestic servant from Kings Langley the daughter of Frederick and Fanny Dell,
on 26th December, at All Saints Church, Kings Langley, Herts. They
had one daughter Ethel May Waller, born on 5th April 1912.
1911 Census records Archibald and his
wife Lily living with his widowed mother at Lady Caples Cottage, Watford, and working as a domestic gardener.
Wartime Service
When war broke out, Archibald
enlisted in Bedford as Private 33175 in the Suffolk Regiment, later transferring
as Private 35338 to the 2nd Battalion of the Essex Regiment.
He served on the Western Front and
died at No. 48 Casualty Clearing Station, Bray-sur-Somme, France, on 17 February 1917,
aged 33. He is remembered with honour at Bray Military Cemetery on the Somme in
France.
He is commemorated on the Memorial at
St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £2-14s-2d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity, which went to his widow Lily. Lily was awarded a Widows Pension of 21/8, a week for herself and daughter Ethel. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
