Uriah Talbot

Uriah Talbot was born at Hednesford in 1896 and was the second son of Henry Charles and Emily Ann Talbot. Henry came from Congreve, Staffordshire and was a coal miner and his wife came from Brewood, Staffordshire. The couple had married at Cannock in 1889, and Emily’s maiden name was Bailey. Their first child was born in 1890 and named Abner William, but in 1891 he was living with his grandparents in Pillaton near Penkridge. His parents were living at Platt Street, Chadsmoor where a second baby Henry Charles had just been born, but this second child died shortly afterwards. In 1901, the family had moved to live at Bradbury Lane, Hednesford, and in the meantime Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Uriah and Kate had been born. In 1911, the family had moved to live at 72, Brindley Heath. Abner had married and left home and Uriah was working as a coal miner engine road man. Two more children had been born into the family, Arthur and George.

On the 3rd April, 1915 Uriah enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment and he was sent to Gallipoli on the 6th October, 1915. From there he served in Egypt before being sent to France in time for the Big Push. Uriah was killed in action at Delville Wood on the 27th July, 1916 at the age of 19. His body was not found after the war and Uriah is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France. Uriah’s sister, Elizabeth married Henry Thomas Gaskin and was murdered by him at Hednesford in 1919.