William Sylvester

Name

William Sylvester

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

03/11/1916
25

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
5589
Gloucestershire Regiment
1st/6th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 A and 5B.
France

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the Much Hadham memorials

Pre War

Born in 1891 in Farnborough, Hampshire son of James William and Mary Sylvester; husband of Annie Eliza Page (formerly Sylvester) and they lived at The Forge, Much Hadham.

Wartime Service

Enlisted at Aldershot and was killed in action on the Somme.

Acknowledgments

Malcolm Lennox