Name
Thomas Charles Fordham
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/04/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
14883
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
Sp. Mem. B. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No individual grave
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Not on the Tewin Village Memorials
Pre War
Thomas Charles Fordham was born on 25 August 1890 and baptised on 9 November 1890 in Tewin, Herts, the son of William and Jane Fordham of Lower Green, Tewin.
In 1901 the family were living at Lower Green, Tewin where his father was working as a bricklayer's labourer. By the 1911 Census the family were living at 87 Wellington Street, Hertford and Thomas was working as labourer at gravel merchant. He married Florence Jenny Lemon in 1914 in St Albans, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and served with the 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in France from 26 July 1915.
He was killed in action at Ijser Canal Bank, near Ypres on 19 April 1916 and is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium in a special memorial row with a cross inscribed with the words "Buried in this Cemetery".
Additional Information
A war gratuity of £7.00 was granted to his widow Florence as well as a pension of 10 shillings a week from 6 November 1916. She was said to be living c/o Mrs Lemon, Asylum Road, Arlesey, Beds.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
