Name
Gerard Daniel Ockenden
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/11/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
230993
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
1st/2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the missing, Louverval, France.
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Prudential Assurance, Holborn, London, Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, London
Pre War
Gerald Danial Ockenden was born in 1898, in Palmers Green, Middlesex, son of Danial Henry Ockenden (Clerk to the Lord Chief Justice of England) and Ada Vivian (nee Houghton) Ockenden.
Gerald was Baptised on 13 November 1898 at St Michael At Dowes, Southgate.
1901 Census records Gerald aged 2, living with his parents and sister Dorothy (3) at, “Shifnal” Palmerston Crescent, Palmers Green, Middlesex. They had two live-in Domestic Servants.
1911 Census records Gerald aged 12, living with his parents, and sister Dorothy (13) at “Shifnal” West Common, Harpenden, Herts. They had a live-in Ladies Help.
Wartime Service
Gerald enlisted in London, posted to the 2nd Battalion, (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), with the service number 3153, (In 1917 he was issued with a new service number, 230993, when the numbering system was standardised).
His medal card records he arrived in Egypt on 30 August 1915, on his way to Gallipoli. Returning to the Western Front in 1916, he was Killed in Action on 30 November 1917, he has no Known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the missing, in France.
Additional Information
His mother Ada received a Dependents Pension of 5/- a week from 6 November 1918, his father Danial received a War Gratuity of £14, and his Pay Owing of £6-17s-6d. Some record spell the Ockendon.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Tony James
