Feaviour, W C
WILLIAM CLACY FEAVIOUR
Remembered with honour Mailly Wood Cemetery: Plot II, Row B, Grave 9.
He enlisted at Armoury House, London, 2 September 1914: 34, 6′ tall. He was Home until 1 October 1916, when he embarked at Southampton for France, where he was killed in action. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals.
There is a Death announcement for William in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 16 December 1916.
Son of the late Robert and Emma (nee WHITNEY) FEAVIOUR of Harleston, Norfolk; husband of the late Blanche Sarah (nee HARTER) FEAVIOUR.
His parents married 26 March 1874 in Stradbroke, Suffolk. Robert died 21 October 1887 in Redenhall-with Harleston aged 57; Emma died 1904 in the Depwade, Norfolk, district aged 62.
William was born 6 March 1880 in Harleston, and married 13 January 1908 at St James’, Bushey, Herts; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Blanche died 1911 in Bushey aged 29, and was buried 23 February at St James’, Bushey.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1881 Census, aged 1 he lived in Harleston, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 10, he still lived in Harleston, with his widowed mother and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, a grocer’s assistant aged 21, he was a boarder in Watford. On the 1911 Census, he lived in Dublin.
Service number
1838Rank
SerjeantUnit
2nd BattalionRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
06/12/1916Age at death
35Place 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)