Name
James Richard Gough
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
105756
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
1st/1st
"B" Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
E. 149.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Our love is with him for ever and ever
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
He was married with five children and his home was at 8, Whitehill, Highbury, Hitchin. His wife's name was Eva Rose and he was the son of the late Richard and Martha Ann Gough of Adstock Farm, Bucks.
Before joining up he was employed as a traveller by W.B. Moss & Son of Hitchin. He was a native of Buckinghamshire, but lived in Hitchin and enlisted in Hertford in 1915.
Wartime Service
James was given the Regimental Number 105756 and was posted to ‘B’ Squadron to Egypt where he fought the Senussi tribesmen in Western Egypt. He was then posted to France and later returned to Egypt and served at Gaza with the Australian Mounted Troops. He also served in Palestine and Syria and contracted malaria whilst taking part in operations near Damascus and Beirut.
He died of that disease in Alexandria hospital in Egypt. He was buried in Row E, Grave 149 in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.
(Part of the XXI Corps, Cavalry Regiment)
Additional Information
Son of Richard and Martha Ann Gough, of Adstock, Bucks; husband of Eva Rose Gough, of 8, White Hill, Highbury, Hitchin. A private inscription on the headstone reads "Our love is with him for ever and ever".
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
