11484, Private, William James FOGG
Aged 19
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Assumed to be born in Islington, London on 3rd March 1897 [Islington 1b:355] to William Henry and Elizabeth Ann
FOGG (née COX). Likely to be the William James FOGG baptised at St Ann's Sth Lambeth on 26th May 1897, father a barman, of 9
Portsdown Road, Maida Vale. This child was left with guardian Mrs Leigh of 36 Riverhall Street, (Wandsworth?) and was on the list
of Springfield School, Lambeth, admitted 15th October 1900.
1901 census...none identified. 1911 census...It is likely that William was the 14 yrs old scholar, born in Islington, boarding with Ernest and Edith Radford at 70 Stanley Road, Newmarket with a sister Gladys [8] born Westminster. In this census it appears that it is his widowed mother who was cook for Capt R Dewhurst, trainer at Bedford Lodge. She later married the butler, Henry HENMAN living at Queensbury Buildings, Old Station Road, Newmarket William enlisted in Blackpool, (his mother originated from Southport). William's family history is not definitely proven yet. The pension card gives his dependant as his mother, Elizabeth Ann Fogg, at Glenara,(next to Carlburg) Bury Road, Newmarket.
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"Soldier's Personal Effects" entry has for sole legatee "R Pts recharge"..as yet to ascertain what this means. The 6th Battalion, King's Own Lancaster Regiment took part in actions at Hannah & Sanniyat on the Tigris (5th-9th April,1916). These attacks were part of an attempt to relieve the British & Indian troops besieged in Kut-al-Amara. The attack on Sanniyat was repulsed with heavy losses. The Battalion lost 76 men on 9th April 1916. There are no identified graves, even the 2 buried in Amara Cemetery have no headstone, they were removed by CWGC in 1933 due to deterioration. All the casualties are now just named on Memorials (70 at Basra) |
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