Name
William Thomas Bysouth
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/12/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
22427
Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOIRAN MEMORIAL
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Reed, Nuthampstead Plaque, St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway, Not on the Barkway memorials, Not on the Royston memorials
Pre War
Born in 1893 in Noel Cottages, Reed, Royston, Herts. youngest son of Daniel and Georgina Bysouth later of Melbourn Hill, Royston, Herts. and christened on 18 Mar 1894 in Reed.
He was living there in 1901 and 1911 working as a groom.
Wartime Service
Formerly 13549 Bedfordshire Regiment. Enlisted at Royston, Herts. in August 1914 and went for training in Felixstowe and to France in April 1915
He was wounded in the left shoulder in May at Ypres, returning to England and a hospital in Hammersmith for nine weeks. After recovery went to Serbia on November 5th 1915 to join the Royal Irish Fusiliers
Killed in action in Salonica.
Additional Information
Brother of Frederick John BYSOUTH died 11 Jun 1917 and listed on this same memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
