Name
Richard Payne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
12080
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born Rickmansworth about 1896.
In the 1911 census the family is living at 68 Oak Cottages, Church Street, Sarratt, Rickmansworth. Father Joseph Payne is aged 43, a watercress grower born in Rickmansworth. Mother Sophia Payne is aged 45. Joseph Payne, 19 is assistant to his father, Alfred Payne 17 is also assistant to his father, Richard 15 is a caddie boy, Gertrude 21 is a laundry worker, Louisa 18 is also a laundry worker. All the children were born in Rickmansworth.
Richard left his mother £9-2-5d in his will 14th April 1917.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Killed in Action in the Battle of Polygon Wood in an attack on Moryal on 25th September 1916.
Steady progress was made on Morval. The 1st Cheshires broke into the village with close support from the 1st Norfolks, 1st Bedfordshire's, 2nd Scots Borderers and the 16th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Their first objective, the sunken road, had been reached by 1.40pm.
It was a day of complete victory with few casualties, although considerable casualties were sustained from our own field guns, both during the advance and while holding the sunken road.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
