Name
William Game
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/10/1916
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36328
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, St Joseph’s Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Hertford Heath memorials
Pre War
William was born in 1884 in Hertford to William Game, a labourer, and Ann (nee Overall). William was living with parents at Gallows Hill London Road, Hertford on the 1891 Census, and with his older brothers Charles, Arthur, Michael, younger brother Alfred and his sisters Ellen, Alice, Margaret and Emily.
By the 1901 Census the family were living at Limekiln Cottage, Gallows Hill. The family now consisted of parents, his father’s occupation stated as lime burner, Michael, and William, (aged 17 was a horseman on a golf links). On the 1911 William was still living with his parents at Limekiln Cottage. His father was a Lime Burner as was the youngest son Alfred, and William was a labourer at a gravel pit.
Wartime Service
William enlisted as Private 5668 in the Hertfordshire Regiment. His Serial Number was issued in the month of October 1915.
There is no Service Record available for William so his date of transfer to 6th Battalion Princess Charlotte’s Own (Royal Berkshire Regiment) cannot be confirmed. He was given the service number 36528 when joining them in France. As part of 18 (Eastern) Division he would have taken part in the Battles of the Somme including Thiepval (Sep 1916) and Ancre Heights (1 Oct -11 Nov 1916).
William was killed in action on 3 Oct 1916, his remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Alfred Game who died of wounds in France and who is also commemorated on these memorials.
William and his brother Alfred are also commemorated on the family headstone in Hertford Corporation Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF THEIR TWO SONS, KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR
WILLIAM, KILLED IN ACTION, OCTOBER 1916 AGED 31.
AND ALFRED, WHO DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION JUNE 1917, AGED 24.
R.I.P.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
