Name
Douglas Eaton Enticknap
10/09/1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17476
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
II. K. 6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
"DARLING WE WANT YOU O HOW WE MISS YOU MOTHER,FATHER SISTERS,BROTHERS,ALL"
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Memorial, Not on the Essendon memorials
Pre War
Douglas Eaton ENTICKNAP was born on 10th
September 1896 in Bognor, Sussex. Son of Alfred Enticknap a Nurseryman and
Ellen Enticknap (nee Thurgood). One of their five children.
His parents were married in June 1892 at St Mary the Virgin,
Little Hallingbury, Esses.
He was baptised on the 1st November 1896, in Pagham, Bognor,
Sussex.
1901 Census records Douglas aged 4, living with his Parents, brothers Alfred T (8), Roy M S (3 months) and sisters Winifred G (3) and Doris N (1), at 14 Macers Lane, Wormley, Herts.
Douglas and his elder brother Alfred attended Cheshunt
Dewhurst Endowed Boys school for a short time from October 1903 to November
1904, when they left the district.
1911 Census, Douglas aged 15, a Horse keeper on a Farm,
living with his Parents, brothers Alfred T (18), and Roy M S (10), sisters Winifred
G (15) and Doris N (11) at The Rounding’s, Hertford Heath, Hertford, Herts.
He was later, a resident of Essendon, Herts.
Wartime Service
Douglas travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlisted,
into the 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service
number 17476. On completion of his training Douglas was sent to the Western
Front, he disembarked in France on the 24th September 1915.
In the Battalion War diary an entry for the 14th May 1916,
shows Douglas was one of a group of soldiers presented with cards from the
Divisional Commander acknowledging acts of Gallantry and Devotion to Duty on
the 19th April 1916. When there was a raid on their trenches.
Douglas was Killed in Action on 30th May 1916,
aged 19, he is buried in Essex farm Cemetery, Belgium. Grave Ref: II. K. 6.
Additional Information
His effects of £4-15s-08d, pay owing and his war gratuity of
£7, went to his mother Ellen Enticknap.
His elder brother Corporal 285097 of the Hertfordshire
Regiment survived the war.
CWGC Inscription Reads, “Son of Alfred and Ellen Enticknap
of “Glenisk” London Colney, St Albans, Herts. Native of Pagham, Bognor”.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Stuart Osborne
