Name
William George Ebling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
C/6709
King's Royal Rifle Corps
'C' Company, 18th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY
Sp Memorial A34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Watford Post Office Memorial
Pre War
Son of William and Kate (nee ALLEN) EBLING of Hertford.
His parents married 1894 in the Peterborough, Northants, district. William died 26 May 1944 in Ware, Herts, aged 76; Kate died 31 January 1951 in Hertford aged 80.
William was born 2 May 1897 in Peterborough, and attended Ley Green National School, King’s Walden, Herts, from 7 February to 19 December 1906. He was appointed Assistant Postman St Albans, Herts, September 1913, and Postman Northwood, Middx, Sorting Office June 1916. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Watton-at-Stone, Herts, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a shop assistant aged 13, he lived in Much Hadham, Herts, with his mother and five siblings.
Wartime Service
His attestation was for Short Service (Duration of the War), and he enlisted 4 August 1915 at Gidea Park, London: a telephone operator aged 19 of Watford.
He went with the B.E.F. to France 2 May 1916, and was granted leave 5 to 15 August 1917.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action during the Battle of the Menin Road.
Additional Information
There is a brief article about and a Death announcement for William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 27 October 1917; plus In Memoriams in the issues dated 21 September 1918 and 20 September 1919.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
