Name
Wilfred Osborne
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T4/084271
Army Service Corps
H.T.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
A. 14. 24.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
IN LIFE BELOVED IN DEATH LAMENTED
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, St Michael's Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Wilfred Osborne was born in 1894 in Bishop's Stortford or possibly Cambridge (no birth registration found). He appears on the 1901 Census as Wilfred Hutchinson, a boarder, living with George and Elizabeth Osborne at Rye Street, Bishop's Stortford and in 1911 was also living with them as a boarder at 9 Crown Terraces, Hockerill Street, Bishops Stortford and working as a van driver for a Laundry.
On enlistment he gave his surname as Osborne and was living at 15 London Road, Bishops Stortford and employed as a Laundry Carman.
He married Ethelwin Townley in early 1918 in Bishop's Stortford. She married again in late 1918 to Walter Reynolds in Croydon.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 15 April 1915 at Woolwich and served in France from 11 June 1915 until 14 July 1916 with the Horse Transport Army Service Corps. He was then discharged on 19 October 1916 as being "no longer physically fit for War Service". He was suffering from tuberculosis and he died in Bishops Stortford.
Additional Information
His mother Elizabeth received a war gratuity of £6 10s. On pension records she was said to be his foster mother, although her application for a pension was refused.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
