Name
William Clement Dell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/09/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman/Private
A/200570
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 115 to 119, 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Tring Town Memorial,
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring,
Not on the Aldbury memorials
Pre War
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 6256 Cambridgeshire Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, William’s Service record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is a brief article about and a Death announcement for William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 27 October 1917. There is another article in the issue dated 10 November 1917, and an In Memoriam in the issue dated 28 September 1918.
Son of Fanny (nee GOWER) and the late Joseph DELL; husband of Lizzie (nee HARROP) DELL.
His parents married 27 February 1864 at St John the Baptist, Aldbury, Herts. Joseph died 1916 in the Berkhamsted, Herts, district aged 75, and was buried 18 March in Tring Cemetery, Herts; Fanny died 1933 in the Berkhamsted district aged 95.
William was born 7 September 1879 in Aldbury, and baptised 6 July 1884 at Sts Peter and Paul, Tring. He married 20 December 1900 at Sts Peter and Paul, Tring; they had four children. He resided in Tring. Lizzie remarried 1921 in the Berkhamsted district to Dick S FIGG, and died 1958 in the Aylesbury, Bucks, district aged 76.
On the 1881 Census, he lived in Aldbury, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 11, he lived in Tring, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, a yard man on a farm aged 21, he was a boarder in Tring, with his wife and no children. On the 1911 Census, still a yard man on a farm aged 31, he still lived in Tring, with his wife and four children.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
