Name
Archibald Patrick Glenn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/09/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. VAAST POST MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
Plot II, Row X, Grave 2.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Christ Church Memorial, Watford,
Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Pre War
Son of the late Reverend Richard John and Charlotte Katie Browning (nee Garland) Glenn. His father was the Curate at St Andrew's Parish Church. the Rev, Richard John Glenn and Mrs. Katie Browning Glenn.
His parents married 30 August 1892 at St Bartholomew’s, Chichester, Sussex. Richard died 1904 in the Christchurch, Hants, district aged 40; (Charlotte) Katie died 29 June 1911 in Watford aged 49, and was buried 3 July in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Archibald was born 5 October 1897 at St Andrew’s, Much Hadham, Herts, and baptised there 4 November 1897.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Alfrick, Worcs, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, Patrick aged 13, lived at the Clergy Orphan School for Boys, Canterbury, Kent. His mother may have been visiting the Queen Victoria Nursing Institutes, Bath Road, Wolverhampton. Archibald enlisted in 1914.
Wartime Service
He was originally a Private, from 1910, in the (ex) Public Schools Battalion as Officers’ Training Corps bugler, and enlisted as Patrick 11 November 1914.
Served with the “Hawke” battalion, Royal Navy Division in the Dardanelles, number London Z/812, until 2 August 1915 when he embarked for the U.K. suffering from dysentery and debility. Was discharged to commission West Yorkshire Regiment 26 November 1915.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date not given, and was killed in action. His next-of-kin was his sister, c/o the Mayor of Chichester, Sussex.
Additional Information
There are articles about Archibald in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 23 September 1916 and 21 October 1916.
The personal inscription on his headstone, chosen my Miss D E S Glenn, his elder sister, was “God is Love”.
Acknowledgments
“Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Jonty Wild
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
