Name
Charles Victor Cadwell
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17607
Bedfordshire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FELIXSTOWE NEW CEMETERY
J.4
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
REST IN THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Harmer Green & Digswell Memorial, Harmer Green, St John's Church Memorial Plaque, Digswell, Not on the Kings Walden Memorials, Not on the Welwyn memorials, Not on the Wheathampstead memorials
Pre War
Charles Victor Cadwell was born in 1896 in Wheathampstead, Herts to Frederick Cadwell, a farm labourer and Charlotte (nee Fitzjohn) and baptised there on 29 November 1896. His family of parents, Frederick, (born 1878), John (born 1879), Eliza (born 1881), Alice (born 1883), Stephen (born 1884), Henry (born 1889) and Robert (born 1890) were living at Hollybush Cottages, Gustard Wood, Wheathampstead.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Handside, Lemsford, Hatfield, Herts where his father was a farm foreman. On the 1911 Census they had moved to Digswell Lodge Farm, Welwyn, where his father was foreman. Charles Victor (known as Victor, aged 14 years) was working as a 'helper on farm'.
Wartime Service
Victor enlisted at Bedford as Private 17607 and was posted to 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment situated at Landguard Camp in Felixstowe for training and to await transfer to an active service Bedfordshire Regiments. Whilst there he developed septic phlebitis (possibly as a result of injury) and died at the Military Hospital in Felixstowe, Suffolk on 15 May 1915.
Additional Information
His father Frederick, recorded as living at Digswell Lodge Farm, Welwyn, Herts., received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £5 5s 1d.Mr F Cadwell, and also ordered his headstone inscription: "REST IN THE LORD".
N.B. CGWC gives his birthplace as Kings Walden, Hitchin,(this was his parents birthplace).
1901 Census shows birthplace as Wheathampstead, 1911 Census shows birthplace as Harpenden (near Wheathampstead). He was also listed as Victor Cadwell (without the first name of Charles) on the Harmer Green & Digswell Memorial,
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
www.ourwelwyngardencity.org.uk, Brenda Palmer
