Name
Gilbert Edwin Angell
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
86149
Machine Gun Corps
Labour Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BREACHWOOD GREEN BAPTIST CHAPEL BURIAL GROUND, KING'S WALDEN
At East end.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Breachwood Green Baptist Church Memorial, Breachwood Green, Not on the King's Walden memorial
Pre War
Born in 1886 Kings Walden son of Edwin and Martha Angell.
Married Matilda Butterfield on 4th Oct 1906 at Breachwood Green.Children: Charles Edwin 1906, Joy Doris 1907, Mabel Irene 1910, Frederick Harold 1912, George 1915, Reginald 1917.
1891 census- Aged 4 living in Breachwood Green. 1901 census- Aged 14, General labourer, farm. Living in Breachwood Green. 1911 census. Aged 24, General labourer on sewage station, living in Breachwood Green.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 24th June 1916, called up for service 7th Dec 1916. Posted to 45th Training Reserve Battalion on 9th Dec 1916. Transferred to Machine Gun Corps in Grantham on 13th Feb 1917 and transferred to 296th Agricultural Coy Labour Corps 12th Oct 1917.
Taken into hospital on 25th Oct 1918 & died of Pneumonia on 26th Oct 1918 at Central Military Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Additional Information
Medically unfit for service overseas. Religion- Baptist.
Acknowledgments
Simon Lee
Paul Johnson, June Colegrove, Mark Morgan
