Name
James Edward Mealing
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266567
Bedfordshire Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Sandridge memorials
Pre War
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Sandridge and was living in St Albans when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Presumably transferred from The Hertfordshire Regiment.
It was reported that he drowned in the Mediterranean after the ship he was on was torpedoed.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
