Name
William James Saville
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1916
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27436
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial, Not on the Eastwick memorial
Pre War
Born about 1880 in Eastwick, Herts. In the 1891 census shown living with father David Saville and 4 siblings in Ware workhouse.
Recorded as born in Eastwick and living in Stanstead Abbots when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regt. Unit took part in 1st Battle of the Somme from July 1916. His Company were in a new trench line between High Wood and Delville Wood and while digging a new line they came under heavy artillery fire. It may have been at this point that William was killed.
Additional Information
Appears as 27456 in some records
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins
