WILLIAM JAMES HARDING
Born: 1886, Ipswich.
Died: 10th January 1916; age 30; died of Addison’s Disease at the Temporary No. 1 Military Hospital, Reading, Berkshire.
Informant: J.L. Joyce – Acting Resident Officer, of the Temporary No. 1 Military Hospital, Reading.
Residence: 117, Rectory Road, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 3463.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Grave Reference:
O-32-7.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Louisa Fenhey (formerly Harding), of 117, Rectory Road, Ipswich & the late James Harding.
CENSUS
1891 7, Rectory Road, Ipswich.
William was 4 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
James Harding, 41, a Miller’s Carter, born Wilby, Suffolk.
Louisa Harding (nee Leggett), 32, born Wickham Skeith, Suffolk.
Hervey Harding, 10, born Stutton, Suffolk.
Alice Harding, 9, born Stutton.
Frank Harding, 6, born Ipswich.
1911 117, Rectory Road, Ipswich.
William was 24 years old, a Grinder at a sugar mill. He was living with his parents & brother.
James, 62, Formerly a Miller’s Carter – Invalid.
Louisa, 53.
Frank, 26, a Railway Labourer.
William’s brother, Hervey Harding, immigrated to Canada in 1900. He returned to England for a visit in 1906. Hervey made Astoria, Clatsop County, in Oregon, U.S.A., his home and was employed as a track inspector.
E.A.D.T. – Friday, 8th May 1914 – A young Ipswichian, Hervey Harding, the son of Mrs. Louisa Harding, of 117, Rectory Road, Stoke, met with a sad death at Ilwaco, Oregon, U.S.A., on the 22nd February, when Hervey was swept off the jetty and drowned. It was not till the 15th April that his body was recovered from Chinock. The burial took place on the evening of the following day, in the presence of 150 of his friends and acquaintances, the clergyman at Ilwaco conducting the service.
Soldiers’ Effects to James & Louisa Harding – parents.
William is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Mary at Stoke Church, Ipswich.
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