Name
Harry Charles Halestrap
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
211112
Royal Field Artillery
317th Bde.
C Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
VIII. H. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND MY BELOVED IS MINE AND I AM HIS
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Harry
Charles Halestrap was born in 1889 in Bishop's Stortford to Samuel and Rhoda
Halestrap. The family were living at South Street, Bishop's Stortford on 1891
Census, where his father was working as a Gardener and remained living there on
the 1901 Census. By the 1911 Census he had moved out and was a boarder with
Benjamin and Sarah Page, living at 70 Temple End, High Wycombe, Bucks and
working as a Grocer's Assistant. He married Frances A Rumsey in 1915 at
Tendring, Essex.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Sudbury, Suffolk where he was living, and served in the Royal Field Artillery. He was killed during the Battle of Cambrai, 8 - 10 October 1918 when the town was captured.
Additional Information
His widow Frances received a war gratuity of £6 10s and pay owing of £11 1s 10d. His widow, Mrs F A Halestrap, 1 Beryl Villa, 22 Acton Road, Sudbury, Suffolk ordered his headstone inscription: "In Loving Memory 0f My Dear Husband My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
