251768 Rflmn. William Ernest Taylor Uglow British Army 1/9th (Queen Victorias Rifles) Battalion London Regiment from:Cuffley, Hertfordshire (d.1st January 1915) William Uglow died as a direct result of an incendiary attack on the barn in which he was sleeping early morning on 1st of January 1915 near Ypres. He has no known grave. His name recorded on the Menin Gate.
Additional Information: | My Grandfather was in that barn. He made a border note in the family's "History of the QVRs" about it.
He was also at Hill 60 and survived the war although shot in the leg.
He would virtually genuflect as we passed the portrait of Lt Woolley at Davies St whilst attending the Christmas Parties as a kid.
Horrendous times and we still haven't learntphilip silvester
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