Name
William Albert Paddick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
64499
Labour Corps
108th
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
VII. B. 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End,
St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End
Pre War
Born Rickmansworth and christened on 23rd September 1877.
In the 1901 census the family are living on Uxbridge Road, Mill End. Father William Paddick aged 44 is a labourer in a clay and gravel pit and was born in Sarratt. Mother Ann Paddick is aged 44 and was born in Rickmansworth. William A Paddick is aged 23 and a labourer in a paper mill. Joseph is 11, Samuel is 9, Bertie is 5, Daisy is 18 and is a machinist at an asbestos mill, Violet is 16 and also a machinist at an asbestos mill, Annie is 13 and Rose is 7. All the children were born in Rickmansworth.
In the 1911 census the family is living at Harefield, Middlesex. Father Will is aged 54 and a labourer but out of work. Mother Ann is 54, William aged 33 is a labourer in an asbestos works, Joe 21 is a farm labourer, Sam 19 is a farm labourer, Bert 15 is a farm labourer, Rose 17 is an asbestos worker.
He married Fanny Smith nee Douglas, formerly Paddick of 13 Grove Road Mill End in 1911.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
108th Labour Corps, formerly 40723, 37th Royal Fusiliers.
Formerly private 40723 Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action near Arras on 21st March 1918, the first day of the massive German spring offensive on a front of 44 miles. On the first day 68 German divisions took part. The battle carried on until 28th March.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
