Name
William John Golding
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
60504
Royal Fusiliers *2
9th (County of London) (Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Post Office Memorial (*1), Langleybury Village Memorial, St Paul's Church memorial, Langleybury, Hunton Bridge Village Memorial
Pre War
Son of William and the late Fanny (nee CROFT) GOLDING; husband of Isabella Mary (nee WALKER) GOLDING of Hunton Bridge, Herts.
His parents married 2 November 1872 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts. Fanny died 1916 in Hunton Bridge aged 68, and was buried 24 February at St Paul’s, Langleybury, Herts; William died 1924 in Hunton Bridge aged 74, and was buried 28 June, also at St Paul’s.
William was born 1883 in Langleybury, and baptised 25 February 1883 at St Paul’s, Langleybury. He was appointed R Postman Watford 1906, and married 1912 in the Hemel Hempstead, Herts, district; they had two children. He resided in King’s Langley, Herts.
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 8 he lived in Abbot’s Langley, Herts, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1901 Census, a postman aged 18, he lived in Langleybury, with his mother and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a postman aged 28, he lived in Hunton Bridge, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 23901 5th Battalion Middlesex Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Walter and his brother Edward are also commemorated on the family headstone in Langleybury (St. Paul) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF THE SONS OF THE ABOVE [funny Goulding] WILLIAM, KILLED NEAR ARRAS MAY 3. 1917.
EDWARD. WHO DIED AT BEVERLEY MILITARY HOSPITAL NOVEMBER 13 1918 INTERRED AT FLETTON
THY WILL BE DONE
*1 He appears under the Hunton Bridge section of the Watford Post Office memorial. Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*2 Probably more correctly (County of London) Bn.
London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
