Name
William Arthur Seabrook
30 Jun 1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235088
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY
V. A. 24.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, St Paul’s Walden, Whitwell Village Memorial, Not on the Harpenden memorials, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
William Arthur Seabrook was born on 30 Jun 1897 in Whitwell, Herts to Arthur Seabrook, a watercress labourer, and Annie (nee Wood) and one of five children. He was baptised at St Paul's Walden on 15 Aug 1897.
On the 1901 Census the family consisting of parents, Lillian (born 1895), Florence (born 1896), William, Emily Charlotte (born 1898) were living at Whitwell.
By the 1911 Census the family of parents , William (now working as a farm labourer), Emily Charlotte, and Charles Henry (born 1908) had moved to Bendish Common, Whitwell.
His parents were later lived at 8, Stanley Cottages, Batford Rd., Harpenden.
Wartime Service
No Service records were found for William who had enlisted in the Hertfordshire Regiment in Sep 1915 at Hertford as Private 5533. He acquired the serial number 266861 in the general renumbering of the Territorial Force in 1917 and was transferred to 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment as Private 235088. This Battalion was engaged in the battles of Pilckem Ridge, Poelcapelle and Passchendaele as part of 3rd Ypres.
William died of wounds on 11 Oct 1917 received at the Battle of Poelcapelle (9 Oct 1917 ) and is buried at Larchwood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £7 10s 7d. She also received a pension of 3s 6d a week, which was later increased to five shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
