Name
Cyril Roland Gough
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/01/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3317
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot V, Row E, Grave 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Primitive Methodist Church Memorial, Watford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of the late Richard and Elizabeth (nee BEESLEY) GOUGH of Watford.
His parents married 1887 in the Banbury, Oxon, district. Emma died 1901 in Watford aged 43, and was buried 1 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Richard remarried 28 September 1901 at St Mary’s, Watford, to Mary Ann WELLS. He died 1913 in Bushey, Herts, aged 60, and was buried 11 January also in Vicarage Road Cemetery; Mary died 1943 in the Watford district aged 88.
Cyril was born 20 May 1895 in Watford, and attended first Callow Land Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School from 6 January 1902 to 16 July 1903. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Watford, with his widowed father and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, a baker’s boy aged 15, he still lived in Watford, with his father, step-mother and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 21 January 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: “REST IN PEACE". There is an article about Cyril in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 27 January 1917. Unfortunately, Cyril’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. Cyril is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
