 |
|
William Henry Scudder
|
|
War Memorial: Place and
inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial: A/mech W Scudder R.N.A.S.
Church
Window: W.H. Scudder.
Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) entered as W
H Scudder. [ERO A10815]
|
|
Rank:
Aircraftman
|
|
Regiment:
Royal Air
Force. 1st Class (Dwina River Force). Service No: 227344. [CWGC]
|
|
Service Details:
No
military record found on Ancestry.com 100114
Lost his
life in the Baltic, 2nd July 1919, trying with one officer and
three other men, to stop a mine drifting down on a hospital barge. His action
saved the barge and is to be highly praised. He was loved by his fellow men
and highly respected by his officers for his efficient and unfailing
conscientious work on all occasions.
The
campaigns of 1918-1920 in several parts of European Russia were the outcome
of the Russian Revolution of November, 1917, and are closely connected both
with events in Asia (particularly in Persia and in Siberia) and with the
general course of the War in the West. The continued German and Turkish
threats to India by way of Persia and Afghanistan, and the crisis of 1918 in France caused by the withdrawal of Russia from the Entente, form the
background to the North Russian Expedition and the Allied intervention in South Russia
Air Ministry:
Air Historical Branch: Papers (Series I) AIR 1/16/15/1/81
Russia, Dvina Front - Senior Naval
Officer's report on operations during July and August 1919. . Russia, Dvina Front - Senior Naval
Officer's report on operations during July and August 1919. Air Ministry
Registered Files Air Ministry: Air Historical Date: 1919. [Source: The Catalogue of The National
Archives]
|
|
Personal and family information:
Henry
William Scudder was baptised on 13th
August 1899
at All Saints Church, Norton Mandeville. His parents were William James (an
Inn Keeper) and Martha Rebecca, whose place of residence given was High Ongar
[ERO D/P 267/1/7].
At that
time William John Scudder was publican at the White Horse, Norton Heath
[Kelly, 1898, 1899]. [Source: http://deadpubs.co.uk/EssexPubs/NortonHeath/whorse.shtml]
1901
Census: William was a licensed victualler in Leigh, then [Kelly 1906]
landlord of The Leather Bottle public house.
He is buried in Blackmore, and his son Henry is recorded on the
gravestone.
|
|
Date of Death:
2nd July 1919
|
|
Age:
20
|
|
Where died:
Russia
|
|
Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Archangel
Memorial.
|
|
List of Sources:
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission (CWGC), DeadPubs.co.uk, Essex Record Office, Kelly’s
Directory, The National Archives.
|
|
