Name
Edward Golding
26 January 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
238472
Labour Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OLD FLETTON CEMETERY
NC. 603.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Langleybury Village Memorial, Hunton Bridge Family grave, St Paul's Churchyard, Langleybury
Pre War
Edward Golding was born on 26 January 1885 in Langleybury, Hertfordshire, the son of William and Fanny Golding (nee Croft) and baptised there on 28 March 1885.
His parents had married 2 November 1872 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts and on the 1881 Census were living at Rose Hill Cottage, Gallows Hill, Langleybury, Abbots Langley, Herts, where his father was working as a coal merchant's labourer. By 1891 the family were living at Upper Highway, Abbots Langley, where his father was working as a labourer.
On the 1901 Census Edward was living with his mother and siblings William, Mary and Arthur at Hunton Bridge, Langleybury, Abbots Langley. Edward was then working as a garden labourer but his father was not listed with them. Both Edward and William remained living with their parents in Langleybury on the 1911 Census.
His mother Fanny died in 1916 in Hunton Bridge aged 68, and was buried on 24 February at St Paul’s, Langleybury, Herts. His father William died in 1924 in Hunton Bridge aged 74, and was buried on 28 June, also at St Paul’s.
Wartime Service
Edward initially enlisted into the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 26824, later transferring to the Labour Corps, 414th Agricultural Company.
He died on 13 November 1918 at the Military Hospital, Beverley, Yorkshire (from "disease"), and is buried in Old Fletton Cemetery, Huntingdonshire.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £6 2s 4d and pay owing of £1 17s 8d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Edward and his brother Walter are also commemorated on the grave of his parents in Langleybury (St. Paul) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF THE SONS OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM, KILLED NEAR ARRAS MAY 3. 1917.
EDWARD. WHO DIED AT BEVERLEY MILITARY HOSPITAL NOVEMBER 13 1918 INTERRED AT FLETTON
THY WILL BE DONE
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
