Name
William James Walton Kendall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
12821
Grenadier Guards
No. 3 Coy., 3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HERMIES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot III, Row B, Grave 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Son of William Joseph and the late Elizabeth Jane (nee ANKRETT) KENDALL of Ardwick, Manchester; husband of Margaret Jane (nee GORDINE) KENDALL of Watford.
His parents married 6 May 1885 at Sts Peter and Paul, Aston, Warks. Elizabeth died 1895 in the Manchester district aged 28. William remarried 1898 in the Stockport, Lancs, district to Agnes Emma WALKER, and died 1931 in the Manchester South district aged 69; Agnes died 1937 in the Manchester North district aged 69.
William was born 1887 in Portsmouth, Hants, and married 11 November 1911 at St Philip’s, Dalston, London; they had three children. He was a Police Constable and Reservist. Margaret never remarried, and died 21 December 1961 in Watford aged 83.
On the 1891 Census, aged 3 he lived in Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancs, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a railway carter’s nipper aged 13, he lived in South Manchester, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a Police Constable aged 23, he was a boarder in Watford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Manchester; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 13 August 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There are articles about William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 6 February 1915, 5 October 1918 and 2 November 1918 which includes a Death announcement; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 27 September 1919. Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War. Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
