Name
William Bursnoll
29 Dec 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
7549
London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
21st (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials, Not on Croydon memorials
Pre War
William Bursnoll was born in Tring on 29 Dec 1888 to William Bursnoll, foreman bricklayer, and Amelia (nee Burnham).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Frances May (born 1871), Alice E (born 1883), Amelia (born 1884), Ada V (born 1886), Amy S (born 1887), Eveline (born 1888) and William were living at 11 Western Road, Tring. Also listed was Ernest Green (born 1869, bricklayer’s assistant & uncle of William).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Ada, Eveline, Edith, and William were living at 134, Handford Road, Croydon, Surrey.
On the 1911 Census William , a bootmaker’s shop assistant, was living with his mother, Frances May (cook domestic), Amelia (drapers assistant) and Elsie (born 1892, parlour maid) and Montague Aubrey (born 1903) at 11, St. James Road, West Croydon, Surrey.
William married Maud Lilian Cardy in 1912 in Croydon.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for William who enlisted in the London Regiment, 1/21st (County of London) Battalion (First Surrey Rifles) as Rifleman 7549. The Battalion had been in France since Mar 1915 and in May 1915 was in 142 Brigade, 47 (2nd London) Division, which was wholly Territorial Force. In 1916 they were deployed in the Battles of the Somme at the Battle of Flers-Courcellete (15 – 22 Sep). William was reported killed in action on 15 Sep., his remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
