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Pte. Louis Hatherley
British Army 2/2 East Lancashire Field Amb. B Coy Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Burnley, Lancs.
(d.13th Aug 1915)
Louis Hatherley was the husband of Dorothy J. Thompson (formerly Hatherley), of 69, New Hall St., Burnley. He died when the troop ship HMT Royal Edward was torpedoed on the 13th August 1915 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. (CWGC has surname as 'Hatherly'.)
Pte Ralph Hatherley
British Army 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Nottingham
(d.5th July 1916)
Ralph Hatherley served with the 10th Sherwood Foresters.
Pte. Arthur Frank Hatson
British Army 9th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles
(d.3rd July 1916)
Pte. Arthur Frank Hatson
British Army 9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Enfield, Middlesex
(d.3rd July 1916)
Capt. Arthur Beach Hatt MC.
British Army 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Pershore, Worcestershire.
(d.1st July 1916)
Arthur Hatt was born in 1889 in Oxford, eldest son of Sir Harry and Lady Hatt of Sunnycroft, Bloomfield Park, Bath. His father was Mayor of Bath. After leaving school he decided to pursue a career as a horticulturist and spent several years studying in Holland, Hanover and at the Horticultural College, Wittstock, Brandenburg. He then gained experiance in France before returning to England where in 1911 he was managing a fruit farm near Seaton in Devon before he went into business with an old school friend running a fruit farm in Lilworth, near Pershore, Worcestershire.
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted with the Southdown Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. Within 3 weeks he was promoted straight to Sergeant, bypassing Lance Corporal and Corporal. In February 1915 he was commissioned as temporary 2nd Lieutenant with the Service Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, promoted to Lieutenant whilst in France in September 1915. He was promoted to Captain on 29th September 1915, a few days after his show of valour for which he was awarded the Military Cross, (London Gazette 4th November 1915); receiving it from the King at Buckingham Palace on 17th May 1916, "For conspicuous gallantry and determination on Hill 70 on 25th and 26th September 1915, when with a Serjeant and about six men he held on to his position until practically everyone else in the vicinity had retired."
Serving with A Company, 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He was severely injured and died of his wounds on 1st July 1916 aged 27 years, during the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle. His commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Scott wrote to Capatain Hatt's parents twice, "The last I heard of your son he was badly hit, and the stretcher bearers were trying to get him in. He was perfectly splendid, leading his company up to the first line of the German trenches, and smiling and saying 'Come on, you fellows, we've got them now' The Battalion were splendid for the way they went throught the machine gun fire, which opened the moment we came out. They eventually went through four lines of trenches, though, alas I was not there to see it through." and "Just before leaving France, another officer of the ---------- came down and I obtained further information concerning your son from him. Apparently they brought your son back into our line, but he only lived for a few hours. I say apparently because the young officer was suffering from shell shock, though he seemed quite clear about it"
He was a member of Bedford Modern School 1897-1900, and is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. He is also remembered on the War Memorial at Bath, Somerset. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
Cpl. Arthur Horace Hatten
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:St Albans, Herts
Arthur Hatten joined the 2nd Middlesex Regiment in 1908 as a boy soldier and is listed on the army roll at age 21 on the 2nd April 1911 (Census Day). Arthur was the second oldest of four brothers and was stationed in Malta with 2nd Middlesex in August 1914. Recalled to England he landed with the regiment at Le Havre for what would be the duration of the war. However Arthur was severely wounded in December 1915 and invalided out of the army. He was awarded the Silver War Badge. He had three brothers, who also served in WW1, but the youngest, Alfred, died in France After the war he became a successful builder and even built his own home in St Albans. Born in St Albans in 1889, he died in the city in 1982 and is buried in the main cemetery.
Pte. Frank Hatter
British Army 7th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
(d.13th Aug 1916)
Pte. W Hattle
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Sgt. Christopher Geoffrey Hatton
British Army 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards
from:London
(d.6th Jan 1918)
Christopher Geoffrey Hatton was my father's uncle. He was already in the Guards in 1911, married in 1916, and is buried in the Sunken Road Cemetary, Fampoux I. My father was named Geoffrey after him, but never met him, having been born 6 months after his death in action. And that, I'm afraid, is all I know.
Pte. William Hatton
British Army 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:Nether Alderley
(d.10th Apr 1918)
My great uncle William Hatton enlisted in the Cheshire Regiment on 30th Aug 1916 and transferred to the South Lancs regiment on 14th September1916. Great Uncle William died in action in April 1918 and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert memorial in Belgium.
He was from a family of four. His parents and another brother and sister lived on a farm in Nether Alderley, Cheshire, his trade or occupation was teamsman, he worked with horses. From his army records he was 5ft 9 1/4 ins. 137lbs and 22yrs old when he enlisted.
Pte. William Hatton
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
L/Cpl. George Frederick Hatty
Australian Imperial Forces 10th Australian Machine Gun Coy
from:Timboon, Victoria
(d.12th October 1917)
I know next to nothing about George. He is on the Menin Gate Memorial Panel 31. He and three other soldiers were killed by a shell landing on them.
James Haughan
British Army Machine Gun Corps
My grand father, James Haughan (Born 1897) enlisted from 3 Hobart Terrace, Moorville, Carlisle in Jan 1916. The house is now 16 Kingstown Road. He was a fireman on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when enlisted. He signed up to 4th Border Regiment at 18 years, 5 months as a railway fireman on 18th Jan 1916. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
He was demobbed in Oct 1919 to 9 Summerfield Street, Glasgow. He missed out on his gold watch for long service to the railway because he volunteered, had he been conscripted, he would have got it!
Pte. James Haughey
British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Consett, Co.Durham
(d.7th February 1916)
Pte. Michael Haughey
British Army 27th (Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Leadgate, Durham
(d.1st July 1916)
Mick Haughey joined up when over age, and he need not have gone to war. He was the English-born son of an Irishman from Tyrone and he worked at the Consett Iron Company. He was killed on the first day, but he was never found. Mick is remembered on memorials at Leadgate, Consett and at Thiepval in France. His widow died within six months, leaving three young boys and a girl who also died soon after. One of the orphaned boys, Jimmy, is my father, and I took him and my son to the Somme on my dad's 91st birthday to the battlefield where Mick Haughey's remains lie.
Pte. Thomas Haughey
British Army 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Consett, Durham
(d.17th August 1917)
A. J. Haughton
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Gnr. James Robert Hauxwell
British Army 160th Bde. Ammunition Col Royal Field Artillery
from:Helmington Row, Crook, Durham
(d.31st Mar 1916)
Pte. Stanley Hauxwell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. W. Hauxwell
Army 2/9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Rfmn. Frank G Havard
British Army 1st/5th Btn. London Regiment
(d.1st July 1916)
Frank Havard died on the first day of the Battle of The Somme at Gommecourt. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He left a widow and several young children one of whom was my nan.
Never Forgotten
Pte. William Leon Havelin
Canadian OverSeas Expeditionary Force 14th Battalion
from:181 Rue Joliette, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC, Canada
Born 13 March 1890, William Havelin was the eldest son of Joseph Wellie Havelin and of the deceased Esilde Havelin, of Saint Vincent de Paul, of the Isle of Jesus. His Occupation in 1914 was Blacksmith. Distinguishing features on enlistment are recorded as Tattoo on left-forearm of horseshoe around horses neck and Good Luck maple leaf. Address during WW1: 181 Rue Joliette, Saint-Charles-Borromée, QC J6E 7Y8 Canada. William attested 25th of September 1914 (after medical examination on 28 August 1914) at Rue de Valcartier, Montréal, QC, Canada with the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, aged 24years, 5 months. He was posted to 14th Battalion, 3rd Brigade. His Unit Sailed 3rd/4th of October 1914 on SS Audavia for England. William was wounded at Ypres 23rd of April 1915 leaving a small scar on front of left leg. He was wounded and gassed on 26th of May 1916 with grenade wound to the hand, shrapnel wound to left forearm and left leg and had 2 operations to remove metal foreign objects. On 1st of June 1916 he was taken to Boulogne Stationary Hospital. Then admitted 15th of July 1916 to Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Bearwood, Wokingham. He was transferred to Granville Canadian Special Hospital at Ramsgate on 27th of July 1916 and discharged 16th September 1916.
William was admitted from 2nd Eastern (front) to General Hospital Brighton with Debility on 5th of September 1917 and transferred to Canadian General Hospital in Basingstoke on 31st of October 1917 with TB then transferred to Canadian Special Hospital at Lenham, Kent on 19th of March 1918. Invalided to Canada on 28th of March 1918 per H.S. Llandovery Castle from Liverpool and admitted to Drummondville Hospital Montreal on 25th of April 1918 with TB Lung and discharged on 27th of May 1918. He was discharged from the CEF on 14th of May 1918 in Montreal, Quebec. William died in 1959 in Danbury, Essex, England.
Cpl. John Allan Havelock MM.
British Army 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Felling, Gateshead
(d.16th Apr 1918)
John Havelock is recorded on a memorial plaque (in my possession). He was an employee of the Windy Nook and District Co-Operative Society Ltd. and a member of Felling Primitive Methodist Chapel. The Methodist Archives for the Newcastle upon Tyne District are relocating to Felling and the memorial is to be returned to its original home.
Pte. Joseph Havelock
British Army 8th Btn "C" Coy. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.5th Mar 1916)
Joseph Havelock who died aged 35 was born in Morton Colliery Durham. He was the son of Sarah Jane Havelock of Hebburn Colliery and the late John Henry Havelock and the husband of Hannah Ruddick (late Havelock nee Smith) of 14 Derby Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census Joseph Havelock age 31 is listes as a General Labourer in Shipyard living with his wife Hannah Havelock and children at 17 Nancen Street, Jarrow
Joseph is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Oliver Havens
British Army 3rd Btn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
from: Queen's Gate, London.
(d.27th November 1918)
Private Havens wasthe Husband of A. Havens, of 9, Manson Place, Queen's Gate, London.
He was 39 when he died and is buried Right of the Church from the entrance of the Templemichael Church of Ireland, Templemichael, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Evelina Haverfield
Women's Emergency Corps
Evelina Haverfield was a suffragette but she was also a prominent nurse, and devoted much of her life to helping those who were injured and suffering on the Serbian front. The daughter of a Scottish Baron, the upper-class Haverfield joined the suffragette cause in London and was arrested three times, once for hitting a policeman. When war broke out, though, Haverfield founded the Women's Emergency Corps to help the war effort in England, and promptly left for Serbia to help Elsie Inglis at her war hospital. Haverfield's devotion to the Serbian front lasted long after the war. She and Flora Sandes started an organization to give relief to the Serbian people, and she returned to Serbian territory after hostilities ended to found an orphanage for Serbian war orphans. She died there in 1920 of pneumonia.
Sgt. Harold Sidney Haviland
British Army 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:15 Pembroke Street, Gloucester
(d.24th Mar 1918)
Pte. George Smith Havinden
British Army Queen's Westminster Rifles 1/16 Btn. London Regiment
from:20 Surrey Road, Peckham Rye, London
George Smith Havinden was born on the 3rd of June 1894 in Camberwell/Dulwich, Surrey. His parents were George Smith Havinden a Bonnet Manufacturer, born 29 January 1861 in Bethnal Green (died 1 May 1908); married on 28 December 1891 to Sally (Sarah) Elizabeth Davies, born 31 March 1859 in Bermondsey (died 10 February 1949). Sister: Maud Havinden, born 25 December 1892 in Dulwich, died 24 April 1996 in Croydon, Surrey.
Outline of Great War history: These dates have been taken from 46 postcards sent by George to his mother. The postcards have been donated to the National Army Museum but scans have been retained. There are also 29 postcards/photographs without inscriptions; in twelve of these, George can be identified.
- c. May 1915: Joined up 2nd Battalion Queens Westminster Rifles (2/16 County of London Regiment), B Company 8 Platoon - Private 2734 (later 550622)
- 17 - 20 May 1915: Marched from Watford(?) to Saffron Walden.
- 20 May - Aug 1915: Training.
- 17 Aug 1915: To France, Active Service - C Company, 12 Platoon.
- Early Sept 1915: Rouen, convalescing (diarrhoea).
- 16 - 28 Sept 1915: Active Service Ypres.
- 20 Nov - 4 Dec 1915: Active Service Rouen, No. 2 Territorial Base; on 30 November, changed to 1/16 County of London Regiment, QWR, C Company, 12 Platoon.
- 13 Apr - 9 Oct 1916: Hospitalized to Urmston Military Hospital, Blackwater Road, Eastbourne - Urmston V. A. D., Sussex /2. Newspaper cutting shows he was then attached to 182 R. E.
- 27 Jun - 7 Aug 1917: Active Service Le Havre, QWR 14 Camp 7th IBD (Infantry Base Depot?).
- On 10 July, moved to Rouen, 1/16 London Regiment, 56th Divisional Depot Battalion, C Company, 12 Platoon.
- On 13 July, moved to Frevent (changed on 17 July to 10 Platoon).
- On 29 July, moved to St Omer.
- n 7 August, moved to Poperinghe. George lost an eye in the War. Since there are no further postcards, perhaps the injury occurred in August 1917 and he was invalided out.
In Civilian life George worked for the Statistics Branch, Ministry of Transport, Whitehall Gardens. he lived with his mother and sister Maud in Peckham Rye. Moved with them to Selsdon, Surrey in c. 1932. and continued living there with his sister after their mother died in 1949 until his death in 1981.
Sgt. William Haw
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:16 Fairfield Street, Darlington
William is recorded as Haw, William. 16 Fairfield Street, Sergt 245031 18th DLI in the Roll of Honour held in Darlington Library, believed to have been complied by the Town Council in the 1920s.
Pte. Oldfield Hawarth
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancashire
(d.6th Aug 1915)
Oldfield Hawarth lived at 138 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lancashire. He died 6th August 1915, aged 18 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. CWGC has his surname as Haworth.
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