Name
William Alfred Minney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
70712
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10C, 10D and 11A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Not on the Bushey memorials,
Clay Cross War Memorial, Derbyshire
Pre War
Son of Herbert and Elizabeth (nee GREGORY) MINNEY; husband of Lilian Violet (nee TROTT) MINNEY.
His parents married 24 February 1891 at St Bartholomew’s, Clay Cross, Derbys. Elizabeth died 29 September 1931 in Clay Cross aged 63; Herbert died 21 March 1934 in Clay Cross aged 65; both buried in Clay Cross.
William was born 1892 in Clay Cross, and baptised 25 January 1892 at St Bartholomew’s, Clay Cross. He married 1916 in the Watford district, and resided in Bushey, Herts. Lilian remarried 1918 in the Watford district to Henry R SMITH.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Clay Cross, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a pony driver in a coal mine aged 19, he still lived in Clay Cross, with his parents and seven siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Chesterfield, Derbys; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, WIlliam’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
