- 15259 1st Bn. Suffolk
- Born: 13/08/1891, Bramford
- Date enlisted: Unknown
- Killed in action, 8 May 1915. Age: 23
- Memorial/Burial: Ypres (Menin Gate). Reference: Panel 21
- Parents: Willie & Mary Ann Garrod, The Street, Bramford
- Spouse: n/a
- Service record exists? No
- Medal Card exists? Yes
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The Bramford Church Magazine for January 1917 contains the following reference for William Garrod.
“Hoping against hope, Mr and Mrs William Garrod and their family have at last resigned themselves to the sad conclusion that their elder son Willie, reported missing for so long ( in May 1915), must have been killed on May 8th (1915) about the same time as their son Arthur in the neighbourhood of Ypres. Willie Garrod, before the war was a pointsman and shunter on the Great Eastern Railway. He realised from the first that all the youth of Bramford would have to go, and enlisted in Kitcheners Army in the Royal Army Medical Corps. As soon as his brother Arthur went he felt that he too must join up in a fighting battalion and eventually went out with the 1st Suffolk’s and fell about the same time as his brother, it is supposed in a trench attack.”
This reference must have been a common experience of families hoping for the best only to accept the worst outcome a considerable time later