Name
Hugh Leslie Gray
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1273
Seaforth Highlanders
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 38.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mark’s Church Plaque, Colney Heath. Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
He was the son of William Nicol and Isabella Gray, of 36, Stanhope Rd., St. Albans, Herts. and born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and lived 35 Bancroft, Hitchin (1901) and The Farm, London Colney, St Albans (1911).
The 1901 census records that Hugh (5) was the second youngest of six children: four boys and two girls. According to the 1911 census Hugh (15) lived with his father, who was the farm bailiff, and his elder sister, Marion.
Their mother had died in the years between the 1901 and 1911 census. In 1911 he was working as a farm worker.
Wartime Service
Hugh enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders (aka the Duke of Albany’s Ross Shire Buffs) in Barnsley, Yorkshire and was subsequently sent to France / Flanders.
It is likely that Hugh lost his life in the Second Battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
Hugh’s father eventually moved from the London Colney Farm (1911) to 36 Stanhope Road, St Albans (circa 1915) before ending up at Hill End Farm in Tyttenhanger (circa 1917). It is this fact that explains why two brothers Hugh and David are commemorated on
Acknowledgments
Graham Clark – World War One – The Fallen of London Colney, Grace Clark, Jonty Wild
