Name
Daniel Ronald Bedford
18 Dec 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
38501
Royal Fusiliers *1
32nd (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XXV. J. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE RESURRECTION MORNING
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Daniel Ronald Bedford was born in Tring on 18 Dec 1887 (baptised 4 Feb 1900 in Tring) to Daniel Bedford, hairdresser, and Emma Elizabeth (nee Caudrey). Emma died in 1890.
On the 1891 Census Daniel Ronald was living with his father at 48, Frogmore Street, Tring. Also listed was Charlotte Monk, a domestic servant.
On the 1901 Census the family of widower father, a hairdresser and tobacconist, Ethel (born 1876), Rosa (tobacconist assistant, born 1882) and Daniel Ronald and Charlotte Monk, domestic servant, were living at 48, Frogmore Street, Tring.
Daniel’s father died in 1906.
On the 1911 Census Daniel was a hairdresser living at 27, High Street, Tring with his sister Gertrude who was a tobacconist.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found. Daniel enlisted at Staines, Middx., some time in 1916 joining the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) as Private 38501 and was posted into 32nd (Service) Battalion (East Ham). This battalion went to France on 5 May 1916 and was positioned between Hazebrouck and Bailleul near Ypres, being part of 124 Brigade 41 Division.
In 1917 the Battalion was present at the Battle of Messines on 7-14 Jun when after a heavy bombardment and the explosion of 19 Mines the Wytschaete Ridge was taken. Daniel was wounded in the inevitable German counter attacks and although evacuated to hospitals at Etaples died from his wounds on 14 Jun 1917.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £4 4s 11d was paid to his sister Gertrude.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
