Cyril Webster Pugh

Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve)

Also Machine Gun Corps, attd. 38th Battalion

Killed in action on 21 August 1918, aged 28

CWGC: "Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pugh, of Clapham Common, S.W.1, and of Liverpool; husband of Marguerite Pugh, of Wallington, Surrey. Also served in Mesopotamia and was present at relief of Kut and fall of Bagdad."

Remembered at Forceville Communal Cemetery and Extension, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Cyril Webster Pugh, then 20, was living at 33 Cautley Avenue, Clapham with his family. His father, Richard Pugh, 51, was an insurance clerk, born in Liverpool; his mother, Minnie Pugh, 48, was also from Liverpool. There were four children, three of whom are listed on the census return:

Edith Muriel Pugh, 22, an assistant mistress in a Girls Public Day School Trust school (the nearest one was Streatham Hill and Clapham High School). She was born in Clapham. Her father proudly added the detail that she had a maths tripos from Cambridge. She graduated from Cambridge University (Girton College) in 1910 with a BA (Class: III). She later married and became Edith Alexander.

Cyril Webster Pugh, 20, a merchant's clerk, born in Clapham

Leslie B. Pugh, 16, born in Clapham

Amy Trimmings, 21, a general servant born in Stockwell, lived in. The family shared 10 rooms.

Marriage

The marriage banns were scheduled for 15 November 1917. Cyril gave 33 Cautley Avenue as his address; Marguerite gave 24 Cautley Avenue. Below the entry in the Parish register is a note: "Licence marriage 1st Dec 2pm".

Probate records show that Cyril, of 24 Cautley Avenue, left his estate of £181 and 17s. to his widow Marguerite.