Name
William Henry Tebboth
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/09/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
43564
Royal Berkshire Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Shenley memorials, East Ham WW1 Memorial, London
Pre War
William Henry Tebboth was born in Shenley, Hertfordshire in 1888, the son and youngest child of Henry and Augusta Tebboth, and baptised in Shenley on 5 August 1888. He was one of five children.
On the 1892 Census the family were living at The Rookery, Shenley, where his father was working as a gardener. They had moved to Weymouth Street, St Marylebone, London by 1901 and his father was working as a manservant and his mother as a cook.
By 1911 William was living with his sister Hilda and her husband James Smethers at 99 Shakespeare Crescent, Manor Park, East Ham, Essex and working as a solicitors clerk. His parents were then working as as butler and cook at 68 Harley Street, London in 1911.
He married Lucy Marion Sawyer on 16 August 1913 at St Barnabas, Manor Park, Essex and their son William Norman was born on 4 November 1914 and baptised at St Barnabas, Manor Park.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in East Ham, Essex and initially served with the Gloucestershire Regiment, (service no. 28865), later being transferred to the 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 19 September 1918, aged 30. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £10 and pay owing of £26 13s 9d, a proportion of which was allocated for the benefit of son William. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d which was increased to £1 10s a week from 21 April 1919. Her address on pension records was 176 Shakespeare Crescent, Manor Park.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
