Name
Robert William Redding
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
30316
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CANADIAN CEMETERY NO.2, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST
17. F. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Holloway. Birth registered in Jan-Mar quarter of 1884. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert William Redding of Potters Bar, Middlesex; husband of Matilda Redding (now Gelder), of 38, Taylor St., Crossby Terrace, Halifax. In the 1911 census he was a general labourer living with his parents Robert and Margaret Redding and siblings in Frampton Road, Little Heath. Robert married Matilda Shaw at Christ Church, Little Heath on 19 April 1914 and a son Leslie was born in summer 1915.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at New Barnet while resident in Potters Bar. Service number 30316 suggests he was conscripted in 1916. Killed in action 3 May 1917 in the Third Battle of the Scarpe, a part of the Arras Offensive.
Additional Information
Widowed Matilda married William Arlington Gelder at Christ Church on 21 April 1919.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
