Service no. 530264
Lance Corporal, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), "B" Coy. 1st/15th Bn.
Died of wounds on 10 June 1917, aged 22
CWGC: "Son of William Isaac and Lucy Cousal, of 106, Brudenell Rd., Upper Tooting, London. Clerk of the 2nd Division Civil Service, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Native of Brixton, London."
Remembered at Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 William Cousal was 16 and working as a boy clerk for the Civil Service. He shared seven rooms at 30 Narbonne Avenue, Clapham with his father William Isaac Cousal, 57, a pensioned police officer from Reading, Berkshire; mother Lucy Cousal from Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and half brothers, Albert Cousal, 31, a telegraph clerk for the Post Office born in Plumstead, Frederick Cousal, 30, a seaman born in Paddington and Charles, 26, a telegraph clerk for the Post Office born in Plumstead. William was born in Herne Hill.