Name
William Edward Norwood
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/12/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
50483
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
163rd Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
H. 23.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
AT REST
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
William Edward Norwood was born in 1896 in Tring to Joseph Norwood, bricklayers labourer, and Sarah (nee Gower).
William's mother died in 1899.
On the 1901 Census the family of Joseph, Sarah ,William and Minnie (born 1899) were living at 5 Surrey Place with Joseph’s parents, James & Rebecca and their offspring Mark (born 1874), Arthur (born 1876), Elizabeth (born 1879).
On the 1911 Census William was a farm labourer and was living with his father, and sister Minnie at his grandmother’s home together with her son Mark at 6 Surrey Place, Tring.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found William. He enlisted soon after the Great War was declared, and was posted as a Territorial soldier - Driver 5753 in the Norfolk Regiment. He was probably in the 1/4th or 1/5th Battalion 163 (Norfolk & Suffolk) Brigade in 54 (East Anglian) Division T F and went overseas from Liverpool on 29 Jul 1915 bound for Gallipoli where they served at Suvla Bay from 10 Aug until evacuated to Egypt in Dec 1915.
William may have been in the Machine Gun Section as 163 Company was formed in Egypt on 1 May 1916 and in 54 Battalion, formed from 161, 162 &163 Companies on 19 April 1918 during the Palestine Campaign.
William died on 4 Dec 1918 following an attack of Malaria.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £21 and arrears of £14 4s 1d was paid to his sister Minnie.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
