Name
Edwin (Joe) Joseph Whiting
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1482
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot D, Row VI, Grave 6.
Malta
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Son of Edwin and the late Alice (nee ROBERTS) WHITING of Watford.
His parents married 25 December 1874 at St Leonard’s, Heath and Reach, Beds. Alice died 1899 in Watford aged 45, and was buried 26 April in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Edwin died 19 April 1924 in Watford aged 73, and was buried 24 April, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Joe was born 1889 in Heath and Reach, and baptised 25 August 1889 at St Leonard’s, Heath and Reach. He resided in Watford, and worked as a clerk for the London and North Western Railway.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Heath and Reach with his parents and six siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he lived in Watford, with his widowed father and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a railway clerk aged 22, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed father and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 5 November 1914, and died at the Hospital, Malta, after a bad spell of enteritis and dysentery resulting from service in Egypt.
Additional Information
Listed as WHITING J on the Christ Church Memorial. The HAW Archive includes an extensive set of letters from Edwin dated between 1914 and 1915 visit the Archive section Hertfordshire Men & Women Individuals Stories, Edwin Joseph Whiting - Biography
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
