Name
Edward (Ted) Camp
28/10/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
55043
Manchester Regiment
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot VII, Row A, Grave 21.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Ashwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath Village Memorial, Plaque on private house, Landor Cottages, 4 Back Lane, Letchmore Heath, Letchmore Heath*1, Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Not on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial
Pre War
Edward (Ted) Camp was born on 28 October 1894, in Letchmore Heath, Herts, son of Edward and Martha (nee BEALE) CAMP.
His parents married 26 June 1890 at St Martin’s, Kentish Town, London. Martha died 1906 in the St George Hanover Square, London, district [or in Letchmore Heath, Herts, aged 47, and was buried 8 December at St John the Baptist, Aldenham, Herts. Edward remarried 12 February 1911 at St Mary’s, Watford, to Florence Mary HAWES. Florence died 1932 in Letchmore Heath aged 51, and was buried 13 August, also at St John the Baptist; Edward died 21 November 1945 in Letchmore Heath aged 85.
On the 1901 Census, Edward is recorded aged 6, living at 4, Lander Cottages, Letchmore Heath, with his parents and three siblings.
Edward was Baptised on 26 March 1909, at St Mary’s Church, Ashwell, Herts, with his younger brother Stanley.
1911 Census, records Edward (16), working as a Poultry Lad on a Farm, living with his late mothers’ brother Isaac Beale, his wife Annie and their two children in, Station Road, Ashwell, Herts. His younger brother Stanley is also living with the family.
Wartime Service
Edward (Ted) enlisted at Hertford, Herts, formerly Private 2778 with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and later Private 55043 with the Manchester Regiment, he served on the Western Front. He died on 9 October 1918, of wounds received in action. He is buried in the CWGC Tincourt New British Cemetery in France.
*1 There is a Plaque above the front door of his old house, Lander Cottages, Back Lane, Letchmore Heath, which reads “LEST WE FORGET” STANLEY BEALE CAMP and TED CAMP LEFT THIS HOUSE TO FIGHT FOR THIRE KING & COUNRTY ON AUG 24 1914 & NOV 15 1915 THEY FELL IN ACTION IN FRANCE STANLEY MAY 18 1915 AGED 18 YEARS TED OCT 9 1918 AGED 24 YEARS".
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £12-19s-0d, Pay Owing and £13-10s-0d, War Gratuity, which went to Elsie Mortimer, sole Legatee. His younger brother Private 14076 Stanley Camp of the Bedfordshire Regiment was Killed in Action on 18 May 1915. Unfortunately, Edward’s Service record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is an article about Edward in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 26 October 1918.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
