Name
William Thomas Lovell
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/05/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
241010
Notts & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
IV. C. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
OUR DEAR SON GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN REST IN THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Tewin Village Memorial, St Peter’s Church Muster Roll, Tewin, War memorial, St Peter's Church Edensor (Chatsworth Estate)
Pre War
William Lovell was born 1880 in Tewin, Herts, the son of Henry Wingfield Lovell and Mary Jane Lovell, and baptised at Tewin on 8 August 1880. He was one of five children, although one had died by 1911.
On the 1881 Census the family were living in a cottage near the Rose and Crown Public House in Tewin when his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They remained in Tewin in 1891 and 1901. William and his father were then both working as Gardeners (not Domestic).
In 1911 his parents remained in Tewin, but William had left the family home and was working as Domestic Gardener (Kitchen Garden) at Chatsworth Estate Derbyshire. He rose to Foreman gardener before enlistment.
Wartime Service
William enlisted at Bakewell, Derbyshire on 20 October 1914 and served with the 6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Notts and Derbyshire Regiment.
He was sent to France on 28 June 1915, leaving from Southampton and arriving at Rouen the following day. On 10 December 1915 he was appointed in the field as (unpaid) Lance Corporal and awarded a Good Conduct badge on 14 November 1916.
He was seriously wounded in fighting near Riaumont, Pas de Calais on 23 April 1917 and evacuated to the General Hospital in St Omer where he later died of his wounds on 20 May 1917. He is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs H Lovell, Tewin, Nr. Welwyn, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: “OUR DEAR SON GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN REST IN THE LORD"
His father Henry received a war gratuity of £12 as well as pay owing of £14 0s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
