Name
Barton Fells Dadd
1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/07/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42575
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONCHY BRITISH CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX
I. B. 34.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE WAS LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford College Memorial Hall, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Barton Fells Dadd was born in 1879 in Witham, Essex to John Barton Dadd and Jane Dadd. His father was a Minister of Witham Congregational Chapel.
He attended the Bishop's Stortford College, which was set up as a Nonconformist school. He was married in 1900 to Helen Beatrice Holmans at Eastry, Kent.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and daughter Alice at Upper Goldstone, Ash, Canterbury, Kent with his occupation given as market gardener.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Sandwich, Kent and initially served with the Royal West Kent Regiment. He then transferred to the Middlesex Regiment and was killed in action on 24 July 1917 near Arras.
Additional Information
His widow Helen Beatrice Dadd obtained probate on his estate in London on 8 November 1917 with effects of £225 17s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
