Name
James Messider
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
154324
Royal Garrison Artillery
434th Siege Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND
V. E. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St. John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Born in 1885 son of Peter and Mary (nee Delderfield) in Aldbury and baptised on 3rd May 1885.
The 1891 census records James aged 6 living at Hitchin Police Station where his father was a PC. In 1901 he was working as a Footman at Epping house, Little Berkhamstead and in 1911, aged 28 as a Footman at St Leonards, Windsor.
Enlisted in Darlington.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Additional Information
James is also commemorated on the family headstone in Albury (St. John the Baptist) Churchyard, his inscription reads:
"ALSO OF JAMES THE BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE (Peter Messider)
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION SEPT 29TH 1918. AGED 33 YEARS"
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
Graham Juniper, Caroline Ellwood, Chris Dove, Mark Morgan
