Name
Harold William Culling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 6A and 6B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Born in the third quarter of 1897 in the Hendon registration district, Harold William Culling was the younger son in a family of three children of James William Henry (b. Q4 1870) and Florence Emily (née Heath) Culling. They were married in 1894 in the Alverstoke registration district.
James Culling was a Civil Servant, an Assistant Director of Victualling, at the Admiralty. Florence died in 1908 and James re-married in 1909 to Edith Winifred Maude Taylor.
The family lived initially at 57 Connaught Road, Willesden, but by 1911, when the children were at school, they had settled at ‘The Shieling’, Grange Road, Bushey and later in nearby ‘Rostellan’ in Bushey Grove Road (the section now re-named Woodlands Road).
Wartime Service
Harold enlisted as Private 3115 with the 28th London regiment and was later transferred to the 9th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s, West Riding Regiment where he gained a commissioned as Second Lieutenant.
He was killed in action on 7 July 1916, aged 19 and is remembered with honour on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, Pier & Face 6A & 6B. He is also commemorated on the Bushey Town Memorial, and at St James’ Parish Church and St Paul’s.
Additional Information
His elder brother, Private Victor James Culling died of wounds at home on 28 October 1918, aged 23. Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
