25th County of London Cyclist Battalion
The London Regiment


William Henry FORDHAM


Service Records

Born - ca.1887
Address - 6 Brunswick St, Walthamstow, Essex.
Next of kin - wife - Emily Edith Fordham (nee Starie) - Married 5 Sep 1909, St Michael, Walthamstow. 
                   (wife married 2nd - to William Richard Clark on 16 Nov 1919 at St Mary of Eton, Hackney Wick.)
Enlisted - 20 Apr 1915
Rank - Bomber
Service - 3/25th Bn London Regt. No.2371
            - 3/2nd London Div Cyc Co. from 17 Aug 1915.
            - Army Cycle Corps. from 1 Oct 1916. No.13018 - 7th Platoon, 'C' Co. 10th Bn
To France 19 Sep 1916.
Killed in action - 11 Jun 1917 in France.


In Memory of
Private W H FORDHAM

13018, "X" Corps Cyclist Bn., Army Cyclist Corps (formerly 25th Bn London Regt.)
who died
on 11 June 1917

Remembered with honour
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Acknowledgments to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.


   

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