Name
Hubert Stanley Jose Felce
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42340
Essex Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 51 and 52.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Born in Woolwich in the first quarter of 1899, Hubert Stanley Jose Felce was the son of Horace Edward and Florence Agnes (née Roberts) Felce. His parents were married in 1895, with the marriage recorded in the Northampton registration district.
At the 1901 Census, the family was living at 8, Mansfield Road, Wanstead. Hubert was two years old and had a brother Horace Reginald and a sister Kate Pricilla. Horace was born in the third quarter of 1895 and registered in the Northampton district, and Kate was born in the first quarter of 1900 and registered in the Woolwich district.
By the time of the 1911 Census, the family had moved to Rose Cottage, High Street, Sevenoaks and included Kate and a younger brother Frank, who was born in the third quarter of 1905 in the Sevenoaks registration district. However, neither Hubert nor his elder brother Horace were present.
The family moved to Hertfordshire towards the end of the First World War.
Wartime Service
Hubert enlisted in Lewisham as Private 49921 with the Northamptonshire Regiment. He later transferred to the Essex Regiment, 10th Battalion as Private 42340 and was killed in action on 21 March 1918.
When news of the Armistice reached Bushey on 11 November 1918, the parish was soon gay with flags. His father Horace Felce, the draper, had foreseen the demand for bunting and his new shop at 33 High Street, Bushey was besieged with purchasers all day. This must have been a poignant moment for him, for Hubert had been killed in France just a few months earlier.
Hubert is remembered with honour at the Pozieres Memorial is commemorated on the Bushey memorial and at St James’ Church.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
