Name
Horace Oliver Dwight
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
266133
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Wigginton Village Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Tring Memorials
Pre War
Horace Oliver Dwight was born in 1894, in Wigginton, Herts, son of Albert Dwight (born 1872 in Wigginton) and Sarah (nee Dell, born 1867 in Wigginton).
The 1901 Census records Horace aged 7, at school, living with his parents, brothers Altimus (born 1896) and Owen (born 1901), near The Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
By the 1911 Horace (Horus on the return had left school and was working as a farm labourer, living with his parents, father was a shepherd, brothers Altimus, (also a farm labourer), Owen, 10 and Ernest (born1906), still near The Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Horace who enlisted in the County Town of Hertford, posted to the 1st/1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, as Private 3806, he would become 266133 in the Territorial Force renumbering in 1917.
His medal card indicates that he landed in France in Jul 1915 joining the Battalion who were part of 6 Brigade , 2nd Division and fought at Loos (25 Sep-8 Oct 1915). In Feb 1916the Battalion was deployed to the Somme Sector and became part of 118 Brigade, 39 Division and fought at the Battles of the Somme at Thiepval (26-28 Sep), Ancre Heights (1 Oct-11 Nov) and Ancre 13-18 Nov) before transferring to Ypres in 1917 for the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) at Pilkem Ridge (31 Jul), Langemarck ( 16-18 Aug) and Menin Road Ridge (20-25 Sep).
Horace was Killed in Action on 21st September 1917. He has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £16 10s was paid to his father and arrears of £10 15s 9d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
