Name
William Walter Shambrook
24th June 1896.
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31529
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
167th Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 136.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial to the missing, Loos, France.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Walden Village Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Kings Walden,
Pre War
William Walter Shambrook was born in Epping, Essex on 24th June 1896 the son of William George Shambrook (B 1866 in Hertfordshire) a Gardener and Matilda Elizabeth Shambrook (nee Austin) (B 1870 in Surrey).
He was the eldest of two children.
William attended Kings Walden National School.
1911 Census records William
aged 14 and working as a Farm Labourer, living with his parents and younger
brother Frederick 6 months.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Initially posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 22950 then transferred to the 167th Company, Machine Gun Corps, with the service number 31529.
William was Killed in
Action on Sunday 19th November 1916, aged 20, he has no known grave and is
commemorated on the Loos Memorial to the missing, Loos, Pas de Calais, France.
Panel 136.
Additional Information
His effects of £7-11s-4d, pay owing and £3-10s-0d, War Gratuity went to his father William G. Shambrook.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild.
