Bunnage/Bunneage, W W
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE BUNNAGE
Remembered with honour Helles Memorial: Panel 104 to 113.
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 April 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli. Unfortunately, William’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is a Death announcement for William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 4 March 1916.
Son of Eliza (nee HILL) BUNNAGE of Watford, and the late Wilberforce BUNNAGE.
His parents married 25 December 1886 at All Saints, King’s Langley, Herts. Wilberforce died in Watford 1912 aged 48, and was buried 14 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Eliza died 1948 in Watford aged 82, and was buried 26 January, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
William was born 1892 in Watford, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Watford, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, a general labourer aged 19, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and ten siblings.
Service number
14070Rank
PrivateUnit
4th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
06/08/1915Age at death
24Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)