Name
David John Cutmore
26 October 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
54659
Welsh Regiment
14th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOIS-DES-ANGLES BRITISH CEMETERY, CREVECOEUR-SUR-L'ESCAUT
II. A. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church Memorial, High Cross, Thundridge Village Memorial, Not on the Standon memorials, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born on 26 Oct 1896 in Haven End, Standon, Herts. son of Abel and Clara Cutmore and christened in High Cross on 3 Dec 1896.
Living in Wadesmill in 1901, when his father was recorded as an agricultural labourer. Then in 1911, still living on Wadesmill, David, then 14 years old, was a farm lad and his father a threshing machine labourer. Later lived in Sute's Farm, High Cross, Ware, Herts. He was the eldest of seven children.
Wartime Service
He initially enlisted in Hertford, at the beginning of the war, according to Herts & Essex Observer, joining the Hertfordshire Regiment (Service No 3769).
Later he transferred/moved to the 14th Battalion, Welsh Regiment.
He is reported to have been wounded in the thigh previously to his death and had had short leaves home in 1917.
Additional Information
CWGC: Son of Mrs. Clara Cutmore, of Sute’s Farm, High Cross, Ware, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird, Jonty Wild
