WILLIAM GEORGE LORD
Served under his mother’s maiden name, OFFORD.
Born: 1883, Holy Trinity, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Baptised on the 27th May 1883, at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich – family home at Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Died: 1st February 1917; age: 33; died of General Paralysis of the Insane, at Ipswich Mental Hospital. Served 10 years.
Residence: 25, Lancaster Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: a Bargeman.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich; date: 22nd March 1905; age: 20 years & 10 months; religion: CofE. Height: 5ft & 4ins, fresh complexion, brown eyes & dark brown hair. Tattoo marks & Sailor on right forearm.
Date of Entry Therein: 19th August 1914 – France.
Service:
Home: 2nd February 1911 – 19th August 1914
France: 18th August 1914 – 5th November 1916
Admitted to hospital – 18th October 1916
Sent home to England – 5th November 1916 – H.S. ‘Carisbrook Castle.’
Home: 6th November 1916 – 31st January 1917.
Medical – 10th January 1917. Illness originated in October 1916, France. On the 18th October 1916 reported by his Officer Commanding to be totally useless, having to be washed and fed by his comrades.
12th December 1916 – Left pupil much larger than right, both insensitive to light. Facial muscles unsteady. Syphilis – active service contributory, stress of campaign – Permanent – Total incapacity.
Discharged: 30th January 1917 – Character – Good. Awarded Silver War Badge, number 55299. Silver War Badge returned.
Served in South Africa and 2 years and 4 months in France.
Rank: Driver; Service Number: 36951
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, Reserve Brigade, 123rd Battery.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Funeral service held on the 7th February at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich.
Grave Reference:
BA.I.39.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified and Address: Second son of John Lord, of 25, Lancaster Road, Ipswich and sister of Mrs. Emma Daisy Sawyer (nee Lord), of Walton.
Brother to JOHN WALTER LORD.
CENSUS
1891 16, Mount, Ipswich.
William was 8 years old and living with his widowed father, siblings & paternal aunt at the home of his paternal grandparents.
John Lord, 61, a Foundry Labourer, born Denchworth, Berkshire.
Emma Lord (nee Haxell), 60, born Somersham, Suffolk.
Emma Louisa Lord, 21, a Dressmaker, born Isleworth, Middlesex.
John Lewis Lord, 31, an Engine Fitter – Foundry, born Isleworth, Middlesex.
John Walter Lord, 10, born Ipswich.
Emma Daisy Lord, 5, born Ipswich.
1901 45, Norfolk Road, Ipswich.
William was 17 years old, a Fitter of Steam Engineers. He was living with his father & stepmother & stepsiblings.
John, 40, a Steam Engine Fitter.
Violet Elizabeth Lord (nee Sawyer), 31, born Woodbridge, Suffolk.
William Sawyer, 13, an Errand Boy, born Ipswich.
Frederick Lewis Lord, 7, born Ipswich.
Percy Alfred Lord, 5, born Ipswich.
Albert Edward Lord, 3, born Ipswich.
Arthur Reginald Lord, 10 months, born Ipswich.
1911 27, Lancaster Road, Ipswich.
William was 28 years old, an Engineer’s Labourer. He was living with his father, stepmother & stepsiblings.
John, 50, a Tram Engine Fitter.
Violet, 41.
Frederick, 17, an Engine Machinist.
Percy, 15, an Engine Machinist.
Arthur, 11.
Harold James Lord, 9, born Ipswich.
William’s mother was Emma Ann Lord (nee Orford), born 1862, Gravesend, Kent – died in October 1887, and was buried in Section C at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
William’s brother, John Walter Lord, died on the 4th July 1900, during the Second Boer War, of disease at Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. He was ranked a Driver, service number 31979, for the Royal Field Artillery, 17th Battery.
Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – Friday, 9th February 1917 – In the “Field of Honour” at Ipswich Old Cemetery on Wednesday were laid to rest the remains of Willord, who was lately a driver in the Royal Field Artillery. William Lord, who was 33 years of age, died on Thursday last at the Mental Hospital. The arrangements for the funeral were carried out by Edward S. Singleton, Ltd.
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