Name
William King
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
William King was born in 1880 in Camberwell, Surrey, the son of James or William King.
On the 1911 Census William was living in Clarks Yard, Baldock with his father, (possibly grandfather) William and brother Tom [Thomas]. He was then working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
According to a newspaper report in the Letchworth Citizen newspaper of 12 October 1917, William had served for 14 years in the Militia and was in South Africa for two and a half years during the Boer War and two years in WW1, having enlisted in Bedford and served with the 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
He was sent home in July/August 1916 as medically unfit and discharged from the army. He died from chronic pneumonia on 6 October 1917. His funeral was held at St Mary's Church, Baldock on 13 October 1917 and it is likely he is buried there.
Additional Information
His father/grandfather William received a pension in respect of William and his brother Thomas but the pension cards do show the amount.
N.B. It has been difficult to establish the relationships of William King and his brother Thomas King, partly due to the way the census form of 1911 was completed. Because William died after being discharged from the army, there is no entry on the CWGC website or Soldiers Died in the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
