Name
William Edward Cotton Locker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2614
Royal Munster Fusiliers
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 185 to 190.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in Epping Essex, baptized in St. John's Epping on 5th November 1893.
In the 1901 census the family is living in Orpington Father William Joseph Locker, a coachman aged 34, his mother Harriet Agnes aged 33 and sister Grace aged 5. By 1911 he was living at London Road Batchworth. He was 17 and shown as a domestic gardener and had a second sister Gertie aged 12.
Recorded as enlisting in Marylebone, London.
Wartime Service
Royal Munster Fusiliers 7th Battalion, previously 6th Battalion.
He volunteered September 1914, trained at various home stations. Subsequently drafted to the Dardanelles.
He was killed in action Souva Bay.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
