Name
Edward Henry Traveller
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/8895
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park
Pre War
Edward Henry Traveller was born in Somers Town, St Pancras, Middlesex on 2 May 1897, the son of Henry Cornelius and Margaret Traveller and one of nine children, although three died in infancy. He was baptised on 28 May 1897 at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Somers Town, Camden. The family were then living at 15 Sidney Street and his father was working as a shop fitter.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 15 Sidney Street and his father's occupation was given as manufacturer of window fittings. His mother died in 1908 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed father and brother Frederick at 44 Millman Street, London. At that time, Edward was working as a van guard for the London Delivery Company.
Edward later lived at Bexley Heath, Kent.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at Woolwich, Kent and joined the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment.
He died of pneumonia in France on 29 September 1918 at a prisoner of war camp. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His sister Florence received a war gratuity of £18 10s and pay owing of £20 6s 2d.
No obvious connection with Hoddesdon has been found, but he is named on all three memorials.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox
