Maddocks, William

SOLDIER DETAILS:

Maddocks, William
Corporal Canadian Field Artillery 302221
January 18, 1920
Evergreen Cemetery, Milton Canada
Husband of Annie Maddocks of Milton

Maple Leaf Legacy Project

Victoria Park Cenotaph
R. Laughton

Milton Evergreen Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves
Photo from R. Laughton

Sent to Maple Leaf Legacy

Private Maddocks is remembered on the Victoria Park Cenotaph, Milton ON.

William James Maddocks is buried in Milton Evergreen Cemetery along with other Milton Soldiers.

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Milton Soldiers Locations (Google Earth).

Other Links:

	CEFSG Matrix Unit Information
	Library and Archives Canada

SOLDIER SUMMARY:

Corporal Maddocks was born in Wolverhampton England on March 7, 1880. He was the husband of Annie Maddocks of Milton.

Maddocks attested to the CEF in September 1915 as a blacksmith with the 40th Battery of the CFA. He was seriously injured by repeated kicks from a mule, to the abdomen and lower back in December 1915. His back was broken (5th lumbar subluxation).

William Maddocks took horses from England to France for the CFA H.Q. but did not see action in the trenches. Cpl. Maddocks was discharged May 24, 1919 as “medically unfit” at which time he returned to Milton in a plaster cast. He died in January 1920 from inflammation of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis).

There are extensive medical reports in the service file of Private Maddocks.

The soldier pages contain information that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks are active where the information is available:

	Soldier Name: Veteran Affairs Canada, Canadian Virtual War Memorial
	Soldier Number: Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Papers
	Cemetery: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register
	Remembrance: Maple Leaf Legacy Project, Remembrance of Canada's War Dead

The summary of the service is taken from the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is available in electronic and paper format in the Alex Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society. Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared. The research information available is as noted on the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line War Diaries.

A summary of all the soldiers is contained on the Web Blog "Great War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb.