Name
William Phillip Rumbold
22nd May 1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/05/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/23800
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. A. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE HATH DONE WHAT HE COULD
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Wigginton memorial,
St Paul's Harringay War Memorial.
Pre War
William Phillip Rumbold was born on 22nd May 1882, in Highbury / Islington, London, Middlesex, son of Charles Thomas Rumbold a Wine Merchants Clerk (B 1859 in Islington) and Harriet Rumbold (nee Lefley) (B 1860 in Islington). Baptised on the 1st October 1882, at Saint Clement, Barnsbury, Islington.
1891 Census records William aged 8, at school, living with his parents, brothers Charles 10, and Sydney 5, they also have a Domestic Servant living in, in Highbury Hill, Islington.
In 1892 William's mother Harriet died aged 32. His father remarried in 1893 to Amy Alma Crow.
1901 Census record William, aged 18, working as a Wine Merchants Clerk, living at 6 Lothair Road, Hornsey, Middlesex, with his father, stepmother Amy, brothers Charles, Sydney and half-sister Dorothy 6 and they have a live in Domestic Servant.
1911 William is still working as a Clerk in the Wine and Spirit Business. Living at home with his father, stepmother and half sister Dorothy at 6 Lothair Road, Hornsey, Middlesex.
On the 2nd September 1911, William married Eleanor Mary Styles, the daughter of John Henry and Martha Dine Styles in the Parish Church of St Michael at Bow, Southgate, London, Middlesex.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Barnet, Herts and posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the Service Number G/23800.
On completion of his training he was sent to France, arriving there on 23rd November 1916. William was Killed in Action on 11th May 1917. He is buried in the CWGC Wancourt British Cemetery in France.
Grave Ref; IV. A. 13.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £2-8s-5d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which went to his widow Eleanor May Rumbold.
His wife, Mrs. E. M. Rumbold of "Rossmead" Chesham Road, Wigginton, Tring, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "HE HATH DONE WHAT HE COULD".
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Paul Johnson, Stuart Osborne.
