Name
William Henry Castle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/08/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
14507
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 3 May 1894 in 10 Gothic Cottages, Chase Side, Enfield, Middlesex and baptised 27 May 1884 in St Andrew’s, Enfield son of William Bush and Emma Henrietta (Gaylor) Castle and living in 15 Burford Place, Hoddesdon in 1911.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 30 Jul 1915 and was killed in action on the Somme at the Battle of Pozieres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
