Joseph Albert Ludlow

Name

Joseph Albert Ludlow
1888

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

11/11/1918

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
68588
Royal Defence Corps
164th Protection Coy.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Searched but not found

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

GREAT BERKHAMSTED (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY
Row 12.
United Kingdom

Headstone Inscription

None

UK & Other Memorials

Berkhamsted Town Memorial, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford

Pre War

Joseph Albert Ludlow was born in 1888 in Berkhamsted, Herts, the son and youngest child  of Thomas and Eliza (Elizabeth) Ludlow and one of eight children. He was baptised on 5 September 1888 in Great Berkhamsted. 


His mother died in 1889 and on the 1891 Census the family were living at Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted where his widowed father was working as a wheelwright. They remained there in 1901 but by 1911 Joseph was a boarder with widow Elizabeth Welch and her daughter Lily at 23 Highfield Road, Berkhamsted and working as a chemical labourer (at Coopers).


He married Maud Louise Pansey in 1912 in Berkhamsted and they had five children, although one died in infancy. They lived at 7 New Street, Berkhamsted. (When Maud died in 1925, Mrs Pearce became guardian of the children.) 

Wartime Service

Joseph had initially served with the Hertfordshire Regiment,  under reg. no. 157801, later transferring to the Royal Defence Corps, 164th Protection Company and serving in the UK. 


He died from influenza and broncho-pneumonia on 11 November 1918 at the Catterick Hospital, Yorkshire, aged 30, and is buried in St Peter's Church Cemetery, Great Berkhamsted. 

Additional Information

His widow received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £9 14s 10d. She also received a pension of £1 13s 9d a week for herself and her four children. 

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.rectorylanecemetery.org.uk