Victor George Bracher Nash

Rank 
Corporal
Regiment 
Leicestershire Regiment
Date of death 
11 September 1918
Age of death 
40
Address 
53 Skelton Road
Forest Gate
NWM
E7 9NJ
Address source 
1911 Census
Cemetery / Memorial 
France
Biography 

Victor George Bracher Nash was born in 1873 to James and Louisa Nash. He had a younger brother, James.

Victor married Ellen Elizabeth Denny, on the 28th October 1900 and the couple set up their first home at 49 Seaborne Road, Ilford. Victor was working as a builder’s clerk and later became an estate agent. In 1911, the couple were living at 53 Skelton Road, Wanstead, with their three children, Hilda, Frank and Marjorie.

Victor enlisted into the Royal Army Service Corps, but later transferred to the 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. He was sent to the Western Front, where he was killed on 11th September 1918. His name appears on the Memorial in Vis-en-Artois, France.

Research by Redbridge Museum

Sources:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Ancestry.com