Name
William Alfred Fugeman
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/12/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Fusiliers *1
23rd (County of London) Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MOEUVRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VI. B. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
William Alfred Fugeman was born in 1897 in Forest Gate, Essex to Frederick William and Edith Florence Fugeman.
On the 1911 Census, the family were living at 10 Fortismore Avenue, Muswell Hill, Middx, where he was a schoolboy and his father was a civil servant with the General Post Office. They later lived at Ivy Lodge, Warwick Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He served in France from 4 April 1916. The University of London O.T.C. "Roll of the Fallen" and the University of London Student Records Roll of War Service both while engaged in trying to shoot a sniper who was harassing his company, he was shot in the head from another sniper at Bourlon Wood on 1st-2nd December 1917.
Additional Information
His father Frederick received a payment of £178 7s 5d from the Register of Soldiers' Effects. Probate was granted to his father Frederick William Fugeman, staff-officer G.P.O. on 27 March 1918 with effects of £306 13s.
Date of death differs in some records either 1st or 2nd December.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
