Name
Richard Charles Shoebridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/06/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
33047
Royal Engineers
B Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NORTON (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD
South of Church.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial
Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Norton
Wartime Service
B Company. Died accidentally when he hit his head on the concrete floor of the swimming pool at Chatham Base, he had previously served overseas - unscathed. Also Private 4th East Surrey Regt. Rifle Club.
Additional Information
Son of Richard and Amelia Shoebridge, of 171, Baldock Rd., Letchworth, Herts. His sister Vera died aged 15 in 1921 and is buried in the same grave.
Richard grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
In Loving Memory of
SAPPER R. C. SHOEBRIDGE, B. CO. R.E.
DIED AT CHATHAM 11TH JUNE 1915 AGED 21 YEARS.
FOR THEE O DEAR, DEAR XX?
SAPPER R. C. SHOEBRIDGE, B. CO. R.E.
DIED AT CHATHAM 11TH JUNE 1915 AGED 21 YEARS.
FOR THEE O DEAR, DEAR XX?
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Ellen Barnes, Jonty Wild
