Name
William Payne
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
21015
Border Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 85 to 86.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge, Not on the Wheathampstead memorials
Pre War
Son of George and Caroline Payne of Sandridge.
1911 Census living at Upper Beech, Hyde, Sandridge with parents and siblings.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in St Albans and was initially Private 17998, Bedfordshire Regiment, He later transferred to 1st Battalion Border Regiment as Private 21015.
Killed in action on 16 Aug 1917,
Additional Information
Back pay and gratuities of £26 5s 11d paid to mother. His brother Harry Payne also served and died.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
Jonty Wild
