PANDFIELD William G

Additional information on the memorial: 2nd Lieut. 2nd Worcs

Awarded D.C.M. (Distinguished Conduct Medal)

Appears on the Roll of Honour in Shrawley Parish Magazine, January 1915.

Shrawley Parish Magazine, October 1916:
Honour to Sec. Lieutenant W.G. Pandfield, who as a boy worked on the land in Shrawley until he enlisted in the ‘Worcesters’. He had just the same chance that any farm lad had; just the same indifferent education, but he steadily won his way upward to Sergeant’s rank. In January 1915, he won the D.C.M., at that time seldom awarded. (We remember how proud Leigh people were of a Leigh man in the ‘Worcesters’ who got the first D.C.M. in France, not much earlier). Later he got his commission as Sec. Lieutenant and was killed in action soon after. If he had lived he would have gone on. It was in him to go on. We are proud of him. His career, his death adds a lustre to Shrawley, for he is the fifth name on the Highest Roll of Honour – that of the Noble Dead.  R.I.P.  “Sec.Lieut. Pandfield was awarded the D.C.M. in January 1915 for gallantry and ability during the advance through a very difficult country under heavy fire. He rendered very valuable assistance to the Company Commanders” – Extract from Orders

William Pandfield has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.