Name
William Bristow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Very little information has been found in the Parish Records for William Bristow. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour listed William Bristow for the first time in September 1917, serving with the Army Service Corps (ASC). His record was listed, unchanged, through to the end of the War. Arthur and Albert Bristow were also listed from October and September 1917 serving with the Royal Navy. It is not known if these men were related, or what their connection was to Abbots Langley.
A possible link was with the family of William and Ann Bristow from the Portsmouth area. William was employed as a Skilled Dockyard Labourer from the 1891 Census onwards. William and Ann had four sons and a daughter, and three of their sons were named Albert Henry, William Dugelby and Arthur Thomas. In addition they had associations with the Navy and Army in line with the 1917 details listed in the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour – Albert and Arthur with the Navy, and William with the Army.
William Dugelby Bristow was born in Southsea in the winter of 1878. In 1901 he married and lived at the Garrison in Colchester. By 1911 William’s occupation was listed in the Census as Sergeant Major in the Royal Field Artillery. The family lived at 161 Ivor Road, Sparkhill in Birmingham, and the birth places of William’s four daughters reflected their Father’s service in the Army – Colchester, Bulford, and St Thomas Mount in India – all Army towns.
He was recorded serving with the Army Service Corps in the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour in September 1917. In August 1918 the Parish Magazine recorded that he has been reported “Missing”, and this is also reported in the Hertfordshire Advertiser on 10th August 1918. Despite this William continued to be listed in the monthly Roll of Honour Lists, and was indicated having survived the War in the final list in December 1918.
William Bristow survived the War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
