Name
Harry (Henry) Wiseman
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
884549
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HEATH LANE) CEMETERY
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorial
Pre War
Henry Wiseman (known as Harry) was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1892, the son of Samuel and Mary Wiseman and one of 12 children, although 5 died in infancy. His father died in 1898 and is buried in Heath Lane Cemetery, Hemel Hempstead.
On the 1901 Census his widowed mother was the head of the family and they were living at 109 Cotterells Road, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead. His mother was a Charwoman and his siblings, Tom (18), Annie (14) and William (12) were all working, helping to support the younger members of the family, Henry, Lily, Edward and Leonard. Harry's widowed grandmother Elizabeth Woodman was also living with them.
On 19 December 1908 Harry enlisted with the Territorial Force in Hemel Hempstead and joined the Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Herts Battery. He took part in the Annual Training in July each year from 1909 to 1912 and was discharged on 18 December 1912, having served his four year engagement.
By the 1911 Census, they had moved to 3 Victoria Terrace, Albion Hill, Hemel Hempstead and Harry was working as a Printer at the Paper Mill as were four of his siblings.
He married Florence Maud Dean in Hemel Hempstead in 1913.
His widow later remarried to Walter Newton in 1922 and lived at 50 Puller Road, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead. They had a son Frederick in 1928.
Wartime Service
Having previously served with the Territorial Force, he was probably called up when war broke out and served from 3 June 1915 as a Driver with the Royal Field Artillery, initially under reg. no. 1328, being later transferred to reg. no. 884589.
Local sources suggest that he had been kicked by a horse while on active service and died on 29 September 1920 from tuberculosis in both hips and asthenia (weakness) brought on by the injury. He had been discharged from service because of illness on 20 February 1919, having served in the 23rd Brigade of the RFA, and received a Silver War Badge, no. 486413.
He is buried in Heath Lane Cemetery, Hemel Hempstead.
Additional Information
Brother to Leonard Wiseman, Royal Sussex Regiment, who died 26 March 1918 and is named on the Pozieres Memorial, France and Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial. N.B. Not on the CWGC website
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.dacorumheritage.org.uk
