Name
Richard Cornell Lohman
1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
534630
London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
C. 11. 6.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
(Private Memorial-family grave)
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Richard Cornell Lohmann was born in Tottenham in 1879, the youngest son of Conrad and Julia Lohmann. His father was German but became a naturalised British citizen (living at 8 Bedford Row, Tottenham) on 30 August 1886.
He married Isabel Maude Smith in 1906 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and daughter Gweneth, working as a wholesale tea dealer and living at 187 Hampton Road, Ilford, Essex. The following year they had a son, Richard.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London and served with the London Regiment, 15th Battalion (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles). He died of wounds received in action at Beaucroft Hospital, Wimborne, Dorset (originally Beaucroft House) and converted into a Red Cross Hospital in the early months of 1917 to help deal with the wounded from the Front.
Additional Information
Medal Index card shows the service no, as 634630.
Probate granted in London on 19 November to Isabel Maude Lohmann, widow with effects of £3332 5s 9d. Address given as 40 King William Street, London.. His widow was awarded a war gratuity of £9 10s and a pension of £2 10s a week from 14 April 1919.
N.B. Both parents died in Bishop's Stortford and his father and sister Alice were living at 48 Apton Road, Bishop's Stortford on the 1911 Census.
Richard's family headstone (not CWGC) reads (for Richard):
"ALSO OF RICHARD CORNWLL LOHMANN BORN 10TH FEBRUARY 1879. DIED 7TH OCTOBER 1918 OF NWOUNDS RECEIVED FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY"
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
