Name
Cecil Chandler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/05/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
1399
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 47.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Hertford Heath Village Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Little Amwell, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Wilfred Cecil was born in Little Amwell in 1892 (baptised 22 Apr 1892) the son of William Chandler, a baker, and Clara (nee Taylor). Cecil’s Father died in 1893 and his mother Clara married Henry Brace, a grocer, in late 1893.
On the 1901 Census Cecil was living with his mother Clara, brother Harold, Stepfather Henry Brace and stepbrother Henry C Brace and stepsister Clara M Brace at the Street, Little Amwell. On the 19111 Census Cecil, working as a clerk at Haileybury College, and the whole family were still living at the street, Little Amwell.
Cecil married Ida Kate Barnes in 1912, of East Herts Golf Club, Ware, Herts., and they had a daughter Amy Frances born in 1913.
Wartime Service
Cecil enlisted on 19 Feb 1910 as Private 1399 in 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment. Cecil was 18 years and 11 months old and he was a clerk at Haileybury College.
He volunteered to serve overseas and left with his Battalion for France landing on 6 Nov 1914. The Battalion were attached 4th (Guards) Brigade in 2nd Division and were at Ypres in the winter of 1914/15 and took part in action at Cuinchy and on 18 May 1915 were in support of the attacking Guards companies. It was during that Cecil was killed. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 and arrears of £7 14s 6d was paid to his widow.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, , Jonty Wild
