Name
Jack Archibald Nye
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
250726
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUILLEMONT ROAD CEMETERY, GUILLEMONT
VII. M. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wesleyan (Bushey & Oxhey Methodist) Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
Born in Hendon in 1893, Jack Archibald Nye was born to Jesse Edwin and Annie Maria (nee Pond) Nye, the second son in a family of five children, two of whom died during childhood. His parents were married on 7 July 1889 at St Anne’s Church in Bermondsey, Southwark. Jesse and Annie were aged 24 and 25 respectively and Jesse was employed as a Railway Clerk.
Annie died 1930 in the registration district of Hendon in Middlesex, aged 66, and was buried on 9 September in Paines Lane Cemetery in Pinner. Jesse died on 31 May 1950 in Pinner, aged 86, and was buried on 5 June, also in Paines Lane Cemetery.
At the 1901 Census, Jack was 7 years old and living with his parents and two brothers, 11-year-old Reuben Edwin and 3-year-old Cyril Burnard, in Pembroke Road in Wembley. His father was employed as a manager in a railway office. The birthplaces are given as Bermondsey in Surrey for Jesse, Kingsland in Middlesex for Annie, West Kilburn in Middlesex for Reuben and Wembley for Jack and Cyril.
At the 1911 Census the family had moved to ‘Dormans’, a six-room property in Harrow Road, Pinner in Middlesex. Jesse was now employed as a district agent for the London and North Western Railway Company and both Reuben and Jack also worked as clerks for the same organisation. Also present was Jesse’s 53-year-old sister, Grace Loveday Nye.
Wartime Service
Jack enlisted in September 1914 at Edward Street in London as Private 250726 in the 3rd (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) and, according to his entry in the Register of Soldiers’ Effects, was attached as Lance Corporal 2557 to the 4th Battalion. He served in the Sudan and the Dardanelles before serving in France where his death, aged 23, was presumed on 16 August 1916. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 19 April 1915
He is buried in grave VII. M. 5. at Guillemont Road Cemetry, Guillemont in France and the headstone has a personal inscription, which states: “DEAR ARCHIE WE SHALL MEET AGAIN LOVE IS IMMORTAL”. He is also commemorated on the memorial at Bushey and Oxhey Methodist Church and on the Pinner Memorial. He is recorded as Archibald Rye on the Methodist Church Memorial.
His father, Jesse, was named as the recipient of his effects. His pension record card gives his regimental number as 2557 and names Annie Maria Nye, of Dormans of Pinner Road, Pinner as his dependant.
Jack also has an entry in the National Probate Calendar for 1917, which states: “Nye Jack Archibald of Dormans Pinner-road Pinner Middlesex died 16 August 1916 in France on active service Administration London 30 June to Jesse Edwin Nye railway official. Effects £105 5s.”
Additional Information
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk).
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
