Name
A C Hardwick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/01/1919
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
260564
Middlesex Hussars
1st/1st
"B" Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DAMASCUS COMMONWEALTH WAR CEMETERY
E. 2.
Syria
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
He was the son of William J. and Amelia Hardwick of Hitchin and was born in Hornsey, Middx.
Wartime Service
He was born in Hornsey in Middlesex and held the Regimental Number 260564 in ‘B’ Squadron of the 1st/1st Middlesex Hussars according to the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He died of typhus.
This unit is almost certainly the 1st County of London Yeomanry known as the Middlesex Duke of Cambridge's Hussars and serving in Palestine in 1917-18.
He was buried in Row E, Grave 2 in the Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery in Syria.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
