Name
Walter George Fox
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1916
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7100
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERNAFAY WOOD BRITISH CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN
G.53
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Redbourn Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Redbourn, Redbourn Village Hall ROH, Redbourn, Not on the St Albans memorials (*1)
Pre War
Born on 31 Jan 1882 in Redbourn, Herts. son of James and Maria (Moody) Fox, later of 3, Harpenden Lane, Redbourn and christened on 10 Sep 1882 in Redbourn.
He married Kate Taylor in 1905 and they lived in 7 Fish St., Redbourn in 1911. They had two children and was a groom in a racing stable.
*1 The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in St Albans, Herts. and was living in Redbourn, Herts. when he enlisted in Hertford. Other records suggest that he was actually born in Redbourn.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 11 Nov 1914 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Gareth Hughes
