William Henry John Muscutt was born in Leytonstone in 1893. His parents were George, a lamplighter, and his wife, Mary.
In 1901, the family lived at 45 Crescent Road, Leyton. By the time he was seventeen years old, William was living and working at a farm in Wales as a cow man, according to the 1911 census. However he must have moved back to Essex during the war years, as he married his wife, Dorothy Brown, in West Ham in 1915. The couple lived at 178 Hermon Hill, South Woodford.
William enlisted in the army with the 1st Battalion, City of London Royal Fusiliers. He was sent to the Western Front where he was killed in action on 16th June 1917. His name is listed on the Arras Memorial at Faubourg d´Amiens Cemetery, in Arras, France.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com