Name
William Albert Henry Lawrence
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Yorkshire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
William Henry Lawrence was born in the winter of 1897 at Hampstead. He was the eldest child of William (senior) and Jane Lawrence. The couple had two more daughters and one son. William (senior) was born in Abbots Langley in 1872, and it was believed that this was how William (junior) became associated with the village, and maybe why he was recorded in the Parish Roll of Honour. By 1897 William (senior) had moved to Hampstead where he worked as a Milkman, and the family was still living there at the time of the 1911 Census, where William (junior) was recorded working as an Errand Boy.
The Leavesden Parish Records of August 1916 showed that William (junior) had joined “HM Forces”, and at the time was living at Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley, and was employed as an Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum.
Little is known about William (junior’s) War service. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour first recorded him serving with the 10th Hussars in February 1917, but by the next month, and through to the end of the War William was recorded serving with the 9th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.
William Lawrence survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 10th Hussars
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
