Name
George Hagga(e)r
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3031
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE
X. D. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, 4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
He was the son of George and Laura Haggar of 12, Chapman's Yard, Queen St. Hitchin. George was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in June 1893, the son of George Haggar (a Plasterer) and Laura Lucy Haggar (nee Taylor) of 12, Chapman's Yard, Queen St. Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Baptised on 11th October 1893, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
1901 Census records George aged 7, living with his parents, brothers William 10, John 5, Harry 4, and sister Hilda 6 months, at 12 Chapmans Yard, Queens Street, Hitchin, Herts.
By 1911 George had left school and was working as an Apprentice Carpenter, still living a home with his parents, brother William 21, Harry 14, sisters Hilda 10, Beatrice 9 and Ethel 7, at 12 & 11 Chapmans Yard, Queens Street, Hitchin Herts.
Officially recorded as born in Hitchin, was resident there and enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
In August 1914 he was in the Isle of Wight Rifles which was the 8th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment but by the following month he was serving with the Hertfordshires in a trench mortar battery. He was given the Regimental Number 3031 and posted to No. 4 Company of the 1st Battalion landing in France on 21st January 1915.
He was killed in action in France on 13 October 1916.
The Hertfordshires were not engaged in any major operations at the time of his death having recently joined 118th Brigade, 39th Division, III Corps of the 1st Army.
He is buried in Plot 10, Row D, Grave 8 in the Lonsdale Cemetery, Aveluy, France.
Additional Information
On the Drill Hall memorial his surname is spelt ‘Hagger’.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
