Name
William Rudd
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27515
Somerset Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 41 to 42 and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
His mother was Mrs Bailey of 15, Queen Street, Hitchin and his brother was Mr D. Rudd of 9, Storehouse Lane, Hitchin. William had been born in Hitchin and worked in Dartford as a carpenter.
He enlisted in Dartford in Kent.
Wartime Service
At first he was given the Regimental Number 4949 in the London Regiment. Later he was transferred to the 6th Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry and given the Regimental Number 27515. This Battalion was in the 43rd Brigade of the 14th Division being part of II Corps in the 5th Army. He had been in the army for nineteen months before he was killed in action.
His death coincides with the end of the Battle of Langemarck in fighting for Inverness Copse where the Battalion fought valiantly and suffered heavy casualties. This is half a mile east of Hooge on the Ypres to Menin Road.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 41 and 42 of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
