Name
Richard Henry Baxter Waldock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/07/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
18731 (poss 19731)
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot XVI, Row I, Grave 4A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the St Albans memorials
Pre War
Son of Annie WALDOCK; husband of Lydia Elizabeth WARRELL (formerly WALLDOCK and TIBBLES, nee FULLER) of Watford.
Richard was born 1886 in St Alban’s, Herts, and baptised 9 June 1886 at St Alban’s Abbey. He married 1915 in the Watford district. Lydia remarried 1921 in the Watford district to William G WORRELL, she died 24 January 1975 in Watford aged 87, and was buried 30 January in North Watford Cemetery.
On the 1891, 1901 and 1911 Census, he is proving elusive.
He originally attested for the Militia 15 February 1907 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, no. 5830 in the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment: a carter aged 21, unmarried, 5’3½” tall, C of E; and was discharged 7 May 1908.
Officially recorded as born in St Albans and was living in Watford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He re-enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at 17th Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Richard’s W.W.1 Service Record appears to one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Gareth Hughes
