Name
William George Andrews
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
203918
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
William Andrews was born in 1900 at Hatfield, the only child of John and Beatrice Andrews. At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at Pimlico, Abbots Langley. John worked as a Horseman on a Farm.
William was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1916, where he was listed serving with the 1st Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. In the January 1917 Roll of Honour he continued to be listed with the 1st Suffolk’s, but by the January 1918 Roll he was not mentioned, and remained unlisted until the final, complete, Roll of Honour was published in December 1918. At that point he was shown serving with the Bedfordshire’s, but it is not known which battalion, or when he transferred from the 1st Norfolk’s.
William remained in the Army, after the Armistice and was recorded in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Lists, serving with the 1st Bedfordshire’s. In both lists he gave his home address as “The Retreat Lodge”, Abbots Langley.
William Andrews survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
