Name
James Mardell
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/04/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30958
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Harmer Green & Digswell Memorial, Harmer Green, St John's Church Memorial Plaque, Digswell, Not on the Welwyn memorials
Pre War
James Mardell was born in 1882 in Welwyn, the son of James and Ann Mardell. His father died in 1886 and on the 1891 and 1901 Censuses, he was living with his widowed mother and siblings at Welwyn Hill, Welwyn.
In 1901 he was working as a domestic gardener. He married Constance Maud Kirby in 1905 and by the 1911 Census, he was living at Digswell Water Lodge, Nr Welwyn with his wife, daughters Annie and Ada and his widowed mother-in-law, and working as a domestic gardener. They later had a further two daughters, Nellie and Grace.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Flanders.
He died from wounds received in action during the Battle of Arras. His body was not recovered for burial, or not identified, and his name is commemorated at the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £3 was awarded to his widow Constance, as well as pay owing of £2 13s 9d. She also received a pension of £1 8s 9d a week from 21 December 1917.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
