Name
Victor James Culling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/10/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
769108
London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) *1
28th ((County of London)(Reserve) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREAT WARLEY (LORNE ROAD) CEMETERY
H. 75.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Born in the last quarter of 1895 in the Hampstead registration district, Victor James Culling was the older 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.
In 1895 the family was living at 49, Solent Road Hampstead, Middlesex and 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. By the 1901 census, Victor was aged 5 and was listed as living in Hampstead with his grandparents.
The family moved to Willesden, where they lived at 57 Connaught Road, 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).
In 1914, Victor is recorded in the London Gazette (02/10/14) as Assistant Surveyor of Taxes.
Wartime Service
Victor enlisted in Watford and served with the 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists' Rifles).
He died from pneumonia at the military hospital, Warley, on 28 October 1918 and is buried at the Great Warley (Lorne Road) Cemetery, Brentwood, Essex.
Additional Information
Victor's brother Harold William Culling also died in the war. Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk. Information also sourced from Our Watford History website - Please visit www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (University and Public Schools).
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
