Name
William George Dell
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/09/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Shoeing Smith Corporal
105538
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
1st/1st
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
E. 23.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
HE DIED FOR US
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral, Berkhamsted Town Memorial, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
William George Dell was born in 1892 in Tring, Herts.
He married Fanny Probets on 24 February 1916 in Tring and they had a daughter Frances Nora who was born in Berkhamsted the following year.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Hertford and served with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry as a Corporal Shoeing Smith in Egypt.
He died on 22 September 1918 at the 24th Stationary Hospital, Egypt, from malaria contracted whilst on active service and is buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, (Sinai Peninsula) Egypt.
Additional Information
His widow, Fanny, received a war gratuity of £23 10s and pay owing of £10 1s 10d. Their daughter Frances Nora received pay owing of £20 3s 10d. Fanny also received a pension of £1 1s 8d a week for herself and her daughter.
His widow's address on pension records was given as 15 King Street, Tring and her surname was changed to Metcalfe as she had married Frederick Metcalfe in Berkhamsted in 1921.
N.B. The St Peter's Church Memorial in Berkhamsted, gives this soldier's name as Bugler Dell and describes him as being in the Coldstream Guards but no evidence has been found for this in other military records.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
