William Charles – Bunfield – Great Eastern Railway – Sapper – 27/02/1917
Title
William Charles – Bunfield – Great Eastern Railway – Sapper – 27/02/1917
Initials / forenames
William Charles
Surname
Bunfield
Railway company
Great Eastern Railway
Military unit
Royal Engineers, Railway Operating Division
Military rank
Sapper
Military number
229779
Railway department
King's Lynn Docks
Railway job
Accounts Clerk
Date died
27/02/1917
Magazine reference
Great Eastern Railway Magazine June 1917, pg 147.
Memorial
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen
Notes
Age 38, son of Mr Charles Cross Bunfield and Mrs Martha Bunfield of 'Grassendale', Field House, Gaywood, King's Lynn. He worked for the Great Eastern Railway for 24 years before he enlisted January 1917. Bunfield died a month later after contracting spotted fever, at the 25th Stationary Hospital, Rouen.
Information source
St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, Great Eastern Railway Magazine (image: Great Eastern Railway Society), Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Date entered
10/10/2016
Last updated
10/10/2016
Citation
“William Charles – Bunfield – Great Eastern Railway – Sapper – 27/02/1917,” Fallen Railwaymen, accessed May 18, 2024, https://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/items/show/60032.