Memorial Plaque
PTE W. OTTAWAY
GRENR GDS
27 SEPT. 1918
Connection with Effingham
He was born in the village, as were several earlier generations of his family, and was resident there until he joined the Grenadier Guards in, or a little before, 1911.
Genealogy
William’s grandfather was William (Snr.) Ottaway, born in Effingham around 1817. In 1841 William (Snr.) and his future wife Caroline (née) Sumner were both working in Effingham, just two households away from the Vicarage, as servants in the domestic household of a publican Edward Burt: