WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER NEDD

Born: 1894, at 2, David Street, St. Clement’s, Ipswich.

Baptised on the 12^th April 1894, at St. Clement’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 2, David Street, Ipswich.

Died: 6th November 1916; age 22; KiA.

Mrs. Dora Nedd was notified of her son’s death in May 1917.

Residence: 9, Potter Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: Labourer for Great Eastern Railway. Entered the company in November 1913.

Enlistment Location: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 20620

Regiment: East Surrey Regiment, 9th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Memorial Reference:

Panel 65 to 67.

Loos Memorial,

France.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Mrs. D. Nedd, of 9, Potter Street, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1901   28, White Elm Street, Ipswich.

William was 7 years old and living with his widowed mother & siblings.

Isidora Nedd (nee Miners), 38, Laundress – own account, born Probus, Cornwall

George Alexander Nedd, 16, a Grocer’s Shop Porter, born Ipswich.

Henry Thomas Nedd, 13, born Ipswich.

Ethel Georgina Nedd, 11, born Ipswich.

Walter Charles Nedd, 1, born Ipswich.

1 boarder.

1911   9, Potter Street, Ipswich.

William was 17 years old, and a Ginger Beer Factory Labourer. He was living with his widowed mother & siblings.

Dora, 45, Laundress – own account.

Ethel, 21, a Making Hand – Corset Factory.

Walter, 11.

William’s father was George Alexander Nedd, born in 1864 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. An able seaman. On the 17^th/18^th November 1893, George, a boatswain, was presumed lost at sea.

Banffshire Journal – Tuesday, 28^th November 1893 – BANFF VESSELL MISSING – Grave fears are entertained for the safety of the “Admiral” of Baff, a sixty-seven-ton sloop, owned by Baillie H. Munro, which has not been heard of since some days before the great gale a week ago. The “Admiral”, which conveyed a cargo of grain from Banff to Ipswich, was on the way from the latter port in ballast to Grangemouth to load up with coal and was last spotted off Great Yarmouth on Tuesday, 14^th November. Alex King, captain, Banff; Ed Ross, Banff; Sinclair, Macduff; and a man of the name of Need, from Ipswich, who joined the vessel at Great Yarmouth, formed the crew. Except for Ed Ross, the men were all married.

William’s brother, William Albert Nedd, was born in 1891 at 2, David Street, Ipswich and baptised privately on the 11^th November 1892 by the Reverend Samuel Jones, Curate of St. Clenet’s Church, Ipswich. William Albert Nedd died on the 13^th November 1892, Ipswich, and was buried on the 17^th November at Ipswich Old Cemetery.

Soldiers’ Effects to Dora Nedd – mother.

William is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Clement’s Church, Ipswich and the Great Eastern Railway war memorial, Liverpool Street Station, London.

East Surrey Regiment, 9th Battalion