Name
Henry Colin Hagger
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/6763
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hitchin and volunteered in Shepherd's Bush, London in June 1915. His home was at 3, Dacre Rd, Hitchin and his mother was Mrs E.M. Hagger.
Wartime Service
Henry went to the Western Front later in 1915. He was posted to the 6th Battalion and was given the Regimental Number G/6763. After being wounded on the Somme, he was later reported missing after an engagement at Thiepval Wood on the 1st July 1916. Later he was presumed killed.
The 6th (Service) Battalion was part of the 37th Brigade in the 12th (Eastern) Division and moved from Bresle to Millencourt in reserve on the 1st July and during the night went to trenches just west of Ovillers. They were in action on the 3rd July. ‘A’ and ‘C’ Companies went forward at 3.15am on the left flank and under heavy machine-gun fire reached the German front line in front of the village. ‘B’ and ‘D’ Companies followed, suffering high casualties and could not force the attack through to the second line of attack. They withdrew at 7.00am and in the evening retired to Bouzincourt. The casualties in the Battalion were 394 which was about half the fighting strength.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Pier/Face 11C of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
