Name
William Wearing (*1)
1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/09/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
PS/11113
Royal Fusiliers (*1
32nd (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY
Special Memorial, Row A, Grave 23.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Chipperfield Village Memorial, St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield, Not on the Kings Langley memorials
Pre War
Son of Sarah Ann (nee BATES) and the late William WEARING; husband of Harriet Florence (nee SAUNDERS) WEARING of Chipperfield, Herts.
His parents married 5 July 1876 at St Paul’s, Chipperfield. William died 5 July 1916 in Chipperfield aged 67, and was buried 8 July at St Paul’s, Chipperfield; Sarah died 22 March 1921 in Chipperfield aged 76, and was buried 26 March, also at St Paul’s.
d 76, and was buried 26 March, also at St Paul’s.
William was born 1881 in Chipperfield, and baptised 4 September 1881 at St Paul’s, Chipperfield. He married Harriet Florence Saunders on, 12 December 1912, at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts; they had one child Edward William Wearing born in 1914. He resided in King’s Langley, Herts. Harriet never remarried, she died 4 January 1956 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, aged 80, and was buried 10 January at St Paul’s, Chipperfield.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 9 he lived in Chipperfield, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, a footman aged 19, he still lived in Chipperfield. On the 1911 Census, a butler aged 29, he still lived in Chipperfield.
Officially recorded as born in Chipperfield and was living in Kings Langley when he enlisted in Watford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the service number 11113.
He was killed in action on 22
September 1917. Possible at the Battle of the Menin Road, (20 to 25 September
1917). He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals.
Additional Information
His widow, Mrs. H. F. Wearing, Chapple Croft, Chipperfield, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT". Harriet received a widow’s pension of 20/5 a week from 13 May 1918, his effects of £3-4s-9d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £5. Unfortunately,
William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. Some records give his date of death as 19 September 1917. *1 Recorded as WARING W in the Borough Roll of Honour.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)(Service) Bn London Regiment (East Ham).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
