William Salmon

Name

William Salmon

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

09/11/1914

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
7705
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), 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

Sawbridgeworth Town Memorial, Great St Mary’s Church Memorial, Sawbridgeworth

Pre War

William is recorded as being born in Sawbridgeworth in 1879 and at some point was living at 46 Barkers Lane (Station Road).


In the 1911 census he was still living there and was recorded as a ‘Labourer, Carting’.


His service number, and his date of death, shows that William was a professional soldier, enlisting before the war. He served in the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. 


He was resident in Sawbridgeworth when he enlisted there,

Wartime Service

The Battalion arrived at Le Havre in France aboard the SS Oronsa on 16 August 1914 and went to the front, eventually finding itself fighting near Ypres.


On the 9 November 1914, there was only skirmishing, but the Battalion still lost 17 killed and 7 wounded. One of the killed was William, He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France. He was aged 35.

Acknowledgments

Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe