CYRIL OSCAR WILLIAMS
image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury – 1916
Born: 1894, Ipswich.
Died: 4th July 1916; age 22; Drowned at Basra, in the Persian Gulf.
Residence: 5, Cobbold Street, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: T2/11797
Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps, 13th Division Supply Convoy.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 42.
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Relatives Notified and Address: Son of Arthur James and Martha Judith Williams, of 5, Cobbold Street, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 19, Christchurch Street, Ipswich.
Cyril was 9 years old and living with his parents
Arthur James Williams, 34, an Iron Mongers Assistant; born Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Martha Judith Williams (nee West), 32; born Hasketon, Suffolk.
Gladys Olive Williams, 5, born Ipswich.
Muriel Victoria Williams, 3, born Ipswich.
1911 5, Cobbold Street, Ipswich.
Cyril was 19 years old and a Butcher’s Apprentice. He was living with his parents.
Arthur, 42, an Iron Mongers Assistant.
Martha, 42.
Gladys, 15.
Muriel, 13.
Soldiers’ Effects to Arthur J. Williams – father.
Cyril is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich.
Royal Army Service Corps
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