Name
Benjamin Woodford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23168
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 6 and 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Frederick and Kate (nee HICKS) WOODFORD; husband of Gladys Lilian (nee WAKELING) WOODFORD.
His parents married 13 July 1886 at St Michael’s, Waddesdon, Bucks. Frederick died 1941 in the Aylesbury district aged 74; Kate died 1955 in the North Bucks district aged 90.
Benjamin was born 1898 in Stone, Bucks, and married 1916 in the Aylesbury district; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Gladys remarried 1920 in the Watford district to William MARCH, and died 1 April 1967 in Watford aged 82.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Stone, with his parents and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, a plough boy aged 13 he still lived in Stone, with his parents and four siblings.
Officially recorded as born in Stone, Bucks and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Oxford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Oxford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Benjamin’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
