Name
William Charles Dormer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/05/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6548
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the St Albans memorials, Not on the Colney Heath memorial
Pre War
Born in Wallinheagh, Oxfordshire. Lived in Beech Cottage, Colney Heath, Hertfordshire (1899) Cottage No 1, Tilehouse Farm, Theobald Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire (1901)
Wartime Service
The medal roll index indicates that William was first sent to France on 8th November 1914. Given the date of his death, and the place of his memorial, it is likely that William died in the Battle of Festubert.
Additional Information
He was the son of Charles & Dorceas Dormer, of Low Hill, Roydon, Essex. The St Mark’s baptism register confirms that Charles and Dorceas’s daughter, Florence, was born on 11th May 1899, and baptised in the church on 25th June 1899. The record shows that at
Acknowledgments
Graham Clark – World War One – The Fallen of London Colney, Grace Clark, Jonty Wild
