Name
William Charles Martin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/10776
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 D and 6 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Jane (nee DURRANT) and the late Edward Thomas MARTIN.
His parents married 10 May 1882 in Hendon, Middx. Edward died 1899 in the St Pancras, London, district aged 40; Jane possibly died 1920 in the Islington, London, district aged 63.
William was born 1886 in Cricklewood, Middx, and resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Cricklewood, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a telegraph messenger aged 14 he lived in Willesden, with his widowed mother and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, possibly a Private in the 2nd East Lancs Regiment aged 24, he was stationed at Wellesley Barracks, somewhere.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Guildford, Surrey; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 2 February 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
