Name
William John Kingsley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33995
Royal Fusiliers *1
37th Bn. *1
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
VII. B. 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Not on the Buntingford memorials
Pre War
He lived at 87 High Street, Baldock and been employed for 6 years by W. Picton in Letchworth before enlisting under Lord Derby's scheme.
Records are very confusing he may have been born in Buntingford but it is not clear.
Husband of F. E. Kingsley, of 29, Nightingale Way, Baldock, Herts. with whom he had six children.
Wartime Service
Transferred to (64421) 108th Coy. Labour Corps. He was killed by shellfire aged 39. His death was reported in the local paper, dated 20 April. His Commanding Officer wrote:
"As one of the old 37th Battalion, he was well-known and respected in the Company, and for myself I feel that I have lost a man who could always be relied upon to do his bit. "
Additional Information
On the Commonwealth War Grave’s site it gives his wife as F E Kingsley living at 29 Nightingale Way, Baldock after his death.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment – some sources suggest (City of London) and that it was a Labour Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson, Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, Carol Emery
