Name
Stephen William Quibell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
391289
London Regiment *1
2nd/9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 151.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials
Pre War
Son of Alfred Edward and Jane (nee WITT) QUIBELL of Watford.
His parents married 25 September 1879 at St Paul’s, Herne Hill, London. Jane died 1924 in Garston, Herts, aged 67, and was buried 29 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Alfred died 1952 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, aged 95, and was buried 31 January, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Stephen was born 5 August 1896 in Abbot’s Langley, Herts, and attended Callowland Board School, Watford, from 31 August 1903 to 28 July 1910. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Watford, with his parents and eight siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printing hand aged 14, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Stephen’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is an article about Stephen in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 16 June 1917. Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
*1 Probably more correctly (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
