Name
Charles Robert Hedgecock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
14442
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 C and 12 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of Agnes Jane (nee BUCKLAND) HEDGECOCK of Fulham, London, and the late Charles HEDGECOCK; husband of Alice Florence (nee ROBINSON) HEDGECOCK of Watford.
His parents married 16 June 1889 at St John’s, Fulham. Charles died 1918 in the Cambridge district aged 53; Agnes died 1968 in the Wandsworth, London, district aged 97.
Charles was born 1892 in Fulham, and baptised 18 September 1892 at St James’, Fulham. He married 9 January 1915 at Christ Church, Fulham; they had one child. Alice remarried 1940 in the Watford district to Charles JEFFS, and died 1974 in the Watford district aged 84.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Fulham, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, at home aged 19, he still lived in Fulham, with his parents and seven siblings.
Recorded as born in Fulham, London and enlisted in Walham Green *1.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Walham Green, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 26 August 1915, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 It may be that Charles' connection to Watford may only be through the through his wife and he may have no direct connection. Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
