Name
Richard Shailer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/10/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
71417
Royal Engineers
39th Air Line Section
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SALONIKA (LEMBET ROAD) MILITARY CEMETERY
603.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial, St Mary’s Church Roll of Honour, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Richard Shailer was born in 1887 and baptised on 8th May
1887 in Harlington Middlesex, son of Samuel and Mary Shailer. In 1891 they were
living in Harlington, Middlesex, where Samuel was an agricultural labourer.
Richard had an older brother John, an older sister Ellen and younger brother
Samuel. By 1901 they had moved to Clapham and Samuel described as a general
labourer. Richard, aged 14, was working as a baker’s assistant. The 1911 census
shows the family living at the Prince of Wales, Woodcock Hill, Rickmansworth,
where Samuel was a beerhouse keeper, Richard and his younger brother, Samuel,
were then working for a builder. His parents both died in 1915.
Wartime Service
Richard enlisted in Bletchley and served with the Royal
Engineers in Greece. In August 1916 a Greek revolution broke out at Salonika
and as a result the Greek Army came into the war on the Allied side. The town
was the base of the British Salonika Force and had contained 18 hospitals at
various times. The circumstances of Richard Shailer’s death are not yet known.
His effects were left to his sister, Ellen Miles, his
sister in law, Emily and his brother, Private John Shailer (service number
34537), each receiving £2 4s 10d. A later sum of £3 6s 8d was given to his
brother, John, and £1 18s 4d to his sister in law.
Richard’s younger brother, Private Samuel Theodore Shailer, died in Germany on 2 October 1918 and is also commemorated on the Rickmansworth memorials.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Samuel Theodore Shailer who died on 2 Oct 1918 in Germany and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
