Name
Gordon Squires
31/01/1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
G/42128
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FOSSE NO.10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY, SAINS-EN-GOHELLE
I. B. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Not on the North Mymms memorials
Pre War
Gordon Squires was born in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, on 31st January 1889, son of Joseph Squires (at the time of his birth) an Agricultural Worker and Publican and Susan Maria Squires (nee Mould). One of twenty children, ten died in infancy.
1891 Census record Gorden aged 2, living with his parents, twin brother Sidney, and five elder siblings at, The Public House, Duck Lane, Haddenham, Cambs.
He was Baptised on 6 May 1894, with his younger brother Frank, twin brother Sidney and four elder siblings at St Marys Church, Byfleet, Surrey.
1901 Census records Gordon aged 12, living with his parents and five siblings in, Rooms over the Stables, “Hillside”, Allenn Lane, Borehamwood, Elstree, Herts. His widowed Grandmother Elizabeth Squires was living with the Family.
1911 The family are still living at The Stables, “Hillside”, Borehamwood, Elstree, Herts. Gordon, his parents, two brothers, Sidney and Frank, and his widowed Grandmother Elizabeth Squires (86). Gordon is employed as a Wooden Box Maker.
Gordon married Florence Edith Loveday the daughter of Reuben and Eliza Loveday of South Western, Oxfordshire, at the Parish Church, South Western, Oxon, on 25 May 1912. They went on to have a daughter Vera J. Squires born in October 1916. They lived at 5 Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts.
Wartime Service
Gordon enlisted at Willesden, Middlesex, posted initially to the 7th Battalion, Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex) Regiment, with the service number 2440.
He later transferred to the 13th Battalion, with the service number 42128. He was killed in action at the Battle of Vimy Ridge (9-12 April 1917) on 10 April 1917.
Additional Information
Florence received a widow’s pension of 18/9 a week from 29 October 1917, increased to 21/9 a week from 19 November 1918. Her pension record card gives her address as 5, Malden Road, Borehamwood, she also received his effects of £5-11s-3d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £11. Florence remarried in 1919, to John J. Aylott. The SDITGW give his place of birth as North Mimms, Herts, this is incorrect.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams
