Name
William Charles Mountney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/03/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7463
16th (The Queen’s) Lancers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 5.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial Mill Hill War Memorial.
Pre War
Born 1882 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, son of James William Mountney and Esther Mountney (née Hall). His father was a coachman. William was Baptised on the 10th September 1882 at St Mary’s Church, Hendon, Middlesex. The family home was at Ivy Cottage, Page Street, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex. The 1901 Census shows him living in Bourn End, Wooburn Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, His occupation is given as Groom, Domestic and the 1911 Census shows him as a groom, stable, domestic and his address is Stable Yard, Boconnoc House, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. He enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
From his Medal card we find he entered the Theatre of War “France” on the 18th October 1915.
Acknowledgments
Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird
