Name
Stephen Godfrey
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12124
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
Sp. Mem. F. 21.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
UK & Other Memorials
Bishops Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Stephen
Godfrey Davey was born in 1894 at Stamford Hill, London to Thomas and Amy
Davey. His parents married by special licence on 30 April 1890 in St Martin in
the Fields, Westminster. However, on the
1901 Census Amy, although stated as married, was living on her own in Mill
Lane, Dedham, Essex, with Stephen and his three siblings. She was in the same
situation on the 1911 Census, when she and her four teenage children were
living at 32 Hockerill Street, Bishop's Stortford and Stephen was working as a
golf caddie. His father is not listed and his mother is listed as living on
'private means'.
Wartime Service
Stephen enlisted in Hertford as a Private into the Bedfordshire Regiment, and served in France from 30 July 1915. He was killed in action near Reninghelst, Belgium, possibly whilst in a working party setting up cables.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £5 12s. Brother to Caryl Davey also named on the Bishop's Stortford memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
