Name
Wilfred Ernest Renshaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/06/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31509
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE
I. D. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of the late Edmund Willmott and Lois (nee SEABORNE) RENSHAW.
His parents married 23 June 1878 at St Mary’s, Marylebone, London. Lois died 1898 in the Wandsworth, London, district aged 44. Edmund remarried 20 June 1901 at St Mary’s, Battersea, London, to Edith Marion SCOTT. He died 8 August 1916 in Watford aged 72, and was buried 11 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Wilfred was born 1887 in Battersea, and resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 3 he lived in Battersea, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 13 he still lived in Battersea, with his widowed father and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, an organ builder aged 23, he still lived in Battersea, with his father, step-mother and three siblings.
Officially recorded as born in Battersea, Surrey and was living in Watford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His brother Sidney died 30 October 1917 and also features in the Watford Roll of Honour. Unfortunately, Wilfred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
