Name
Harry (Henry) Russell Prudames
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/10/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
18766
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 5 to 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Grandson of James and Susannah (nee ATKINS) PRUDAMES of Watford Fields; son of the late Amelia FEATHERSTONE (nee PRUDAMES).
Harry was born 1892 in Shepherd’s Bush, London [not Catford, Kent], and baptised 15 February 1892 at St Luke’s, Shepherd’s Bush.
His mother married George Charles FEATHERSTONE 5 May 1900 at St Thomas’, Bethnal Green, London. She died 1907 in Watford aged 33, and was buried 9 September in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. George remarried 1916 in the Watford district to Mabel Annie LODGE, and died 1945 aged 75; Mabel died 1972 aged 82; both in the Watford district.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Watford, with his PRUDAMES grandparents. On the 1911 Census, a groom aged 19, he still lived in Watford, with his grandparents.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 16 March 1915; and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Harry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is a Death announcement for Harry in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 30 October 1915; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 14 October 1916.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
