Name
Harry Stanley Warren
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/03/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40381
South Wales Borderers
10th Bn.
A Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FERME-OLIVIER CEMETERY
Plot 3. Row B. Grave 10.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
DEARLY LOVED BY HIS WIFE, CHILDREN MOTHER & BROTHERS KINGS LANGLEY
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Home Park Mill, Kings Langley.
Pre War
Harry Stanley Warren was born in 1886, in Kings
Langley, Herts son of William Warren and Elizabeth Warren (nee Batchelor). Youngest
of three brothers, John (B 1883) and Dan (B 1885). His father William died soon
after his birth.
Harry was Baptised on 23rd June 1889,
in the Parish Church, Kings Langley.
1891 Census records Harry aged 5, living with his
widowed mother (his mother is recorded as a Grocer) and two siblings, at
Waterside, Kings Langley, Herts. They have a Grocers Assistant living with
them.
Harry, Married Millicent Climpson the daughter of
Harry Climpson, on 17 April 1909, in the Parish Church, Kings Langley. They
went on to have two children, Sylvia (B 1910) and Vera (B 1916).
1911 Census records Harry married to Millicent,
and they have one child, Sylvia aged 7, months, and they were living in
Primrose Hill, Kings Langley. His occupation is given as a Colour Stainer.
At the time of his enlistment Harry was working
for John Dickinson & Co.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted at Kings Langley, on 1 December
1915, and posted to the Army Reserve the following day, he was mobilized for
war service on 11 November 1916, and posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with
the service number 8621. He arrived in France on 1 February 1917, with the Bedford’s.
And transferred to the South Wales Borderers on 17 February 1917. He was Killed
in Action by a rifle grenade one month later on 17 March 1917, aged 31. He is
buried in the Ferme-Olivier Cemetery in Belgium.
Additional Information
The Value of his effects was £2-5s-1d, Pay Owing and £3, War Gratuity which went to his widow Millicent. His widow Millicent received a widow’s pension of 22/11 a week from 8 October 1917, for herself and the two children.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
