Name
Reginald Arthur Sawford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
32010
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE
III. F. 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Charles and Charlotte Ellen (nee WHEELER) SAWFORD of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey.
His parents married 13 June 1880 at St John the Baptist, Hampton Wick, Middx. Charles died 1930 in the Kingston district aged 72; Charlotte died 1950 in the Surrey North district aged 89.
Reginald was born 1896 in Kingston-upon-Thames, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Kingston-upon-Thames, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a page boy aged 15, he lived in Kingston Hill, Surrey, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Reginald’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
