Second Lieutenant, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 3rd Bn.
Died of wounds on 27 August 1918, aged 22
CWGC: "Native of Clapham, London. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Whiddett, of Milton Villa, 21, Ormeley Rd., Balham, London."
Remembered at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Horace Whiddett was a 14-year-old schoolboy lived at 21 Ormeley Road, Balham, with his parents and 4 siblings. His father, Arthur Gladstone Whiddett, 44, was a gas engine fitter, originally from Ashford, Kent; his mother, Elizabeth Annie Whiddett, 44, was from Battersea. The children were
Cyril Gladstone Whiddett, 18, was a scholastic agent's clerk
Gladys Gwendolen Whiddett, 16, was a "physical culture clerk"
Doris Lucy Whiddett, 12
Leslie Whiddett, 2
All were born in Clapham, except Leslie, who was born in Wandsworth.