Name
Gilbert Frederick Adcock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/03/1916
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T4/059150
Army Service Corps
2nd Reserve H.T. Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREENWICH CEMETERY
Screen Wall 3 “C” A327.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of the late Henry and Eliza Ann (nee RICKARDS) ADCOCK; husband of Ethel Daisy (nee GLENIE) ADCOCK of Camden Town, London.
His parents married 18 November 1863 at St Pancras Parish Church, London. Henry died 25 August 1884 in Watford aged 57 and was buried 28 August at St Mary’s, Watford; Eliza died 1909 in Hill End, Herts, aged 67, and was buried 12 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Gilbert was born 1873 in Watford, and married 26 June 1899 at All Saints, Leavesden, Herts; they had two children. He resided in Hatch End, Middx. Ethel never remarried and died 21 January 1946 in Fulham, London, aged 67.
On the 1881 Census, a scholar aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1891 Census, a wine merchant’s apprentice aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, a wine traveller aged 26, he lived in East Ham, Essex, with his wife and no children. On the 1911 Census, a licensed cab driver aged 37, he lived alone in Watford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 27 March 1915, and died at home.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Gilbert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Gilbert in the West Herts and Watford Observerdated 18 March 1916; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 10 March 1917.
Recorded in the Borough Roll of Honour as C F ADCOCK.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
