Archibald Horace Fiddy

Private - Service No. 126378 - Machine Gun Corps

Archibald Horace Fiddy, the son of Horace Fiddy and his wife Anna (Watts), was born in early 1899 in Norwich. He was the eldest of three children the others being Florence (1905) and Gordon (1907). Horace and Anna married at Loddon, Norfolk, in 1896, when Horace was 42 and Anna just 22, and lived at 162 Queen's Road in Norwich where their children were born and raised. Horace ran a grocer's shop in Southwell Road, Norwich from which he retired, when still in his 50s. In the mid 1900s Horace owned a cottage by the common in Swardeston. Horace died in Norwich Infirmary on 3rd February 1938, Anna having passed away the year before.

Archibald died, without having married, at the end of 1923, in Whitechapel, London, at the age of 24. His sister, Florence, never married and brother Gordon married Eva Scragg in 1935 but died in 1959 without having any children. This particular Fiddy line ends here!

Archibald joined the Machine Gun Corps some time after 1915 (no 1914-1915 Star Medal awarded) but his army records have not survived so little is known about his war service. We do know he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal the whereabouts of which remains a mystery.

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