WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

63405	Gunner John Wilford	C/114th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery	Born 1887
Medal card	Posted to France 18th September 1915.
Roll of Honour	Listed as serving in Salonika	Various web sites suggest that 660 Company went fist to France then later to Salonika, which prhaps resolves the conflict between medal roll and Roll of Honour
From chat page: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=200589	“C/114th Brigade was with 1st Division throughout - the war diaries of 25th Brigade can be downloaded for a few £s .. Reference WO95-1248. Which provide a day by day account [which is not as interesting as it sounds. It’s very uninformative.]”
Absent voters list 1918	Address given as Newgate Street	Brother Henry is immediately before him on the list for Newgate Street

No service record on Ancestry except Medal card

63405	Gunner John Wilford
1894	Born in Bingham
Census 1901	living in Long Acre, Bingham with: Father: Henry T, b 1845 in Bingham Mother: Emma, b 1862 Siblings: William, b.1882 Henry b. 1887 George, b 1891 Emma, b 1899 John, b 1894	Bricklayers Labourer carter on farm working boy on farm
1905	Mother Emma died
Census 1911	Living in Long Acre, Bingham with: Father: Henry T Siblings: Emma John James, b 1901	Farm Labourer Housekeeper Stonemason	Henry Wilford jnr, b.1888, farm labourer and George, also a farm labourer lived next door in Long Acre. Both served in WW1, George was killed.
Research Note	An alternative candidate was John Thomas Wilford whose family lived in Cherry Street was rejected by the researchers. In 1901 he was a Grocer’s porter. In July 1909 he emigrated to the USA. He was living in London and was a valet. In 1910 he was in Cook, Illinois He travelled to America a second time, on the 6th March 1914 aboard the Lusitania. Again he was a valet living in London. It seems more likely that Gunner John Wilford was the brother of George who had already joined the Royal field Artillery, his brother’s regiment. George was killed in action in January 1915. The absent voters list confirms the identity of John.