Name
Edward Course
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5973
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
H. 3. 76.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Edward Tingey and Clare (nee WARDLE) COURSE of Watford.
His parents married 11 February 1884 at Manchester Cathedral. Clare died 1917 in Watford aged 61, and was buried 17 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery. Edward remarried 1920 in the Kensington, London, district to Louisa DOYLE. Louisa died 18 August 1943 in Watford aged 68; Edward died 28 October 1945 in Watford aged 85, and was buried 1 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Edward was born 18 July 1891 in Watford, and attended Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 9 January 1899 to 13 July 1905. He resided in Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, and was buried 23 September.
In 1901 the family, including two siblings, were living at Sutton Road, Watford where his father was a Stable Master. On the 1911 Census, aged 19 with no occupation. Living at 76 Estcourt Road, Watford, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
His service number suggests he was in the Territorial Force prior to the outbreak of war and would have been mobilised for ‘Home’ service when war was declared.
He enlisted at Bedford and served with the Middlesex Regiment but was wounded, possibly during the Battle of the Somme, and repatriated to England. He died of wounds received, at Richmond Military Hospital which was which located in the workhouse and infirmary of the South African Hospital, Richmond Union Workhouse on Grove Road, Richmond, London.
Additional Information
His father Edward received a war gratuity of £3 and funeral expenses of £3 12s 2d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
