Name
Peter Charles Bayford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
59891
Northamptonshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WARESIDE (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Wareside Village Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Wareside
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Farnham, Essex son of Alfred George and Ann Agnes Bayford and lived in 4 New Cottages, Wareside in 1911. He married Ethel Victoria May on 17 Nov 1915 in Ware and lived in the Dog House, Wareside and later at 15 Croft Road, Ware. He was a railway signalman and porter before he signed up.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford on 7 Dec 1915 and served in the Army Reserve. He was mobilised on 20 Jul 1918 and died at Minster Hospital, Sheppey of influenza and pneumonia after only 15 weeks service.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
