Name
Jesse Hart
1/01/1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25577
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVELUY WOOD CEMETERY, (LANCASHIRE DUMP), MESNIL-MARTINSART
III. G. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials
Pre War
Jesse Hart was born in Abbots Langley, Herts, on 1 January 1893, son of George Hart (1853-1933) a Horse Keeper on a Farm and Emma Hart (1852- 1926) (nee How). One of 12 children 4 died in infancy, George H (B 1876), James (B 1878), Ernest (B 1881), Margaret (B 1892), Harry (B 1884), Sydney C (B 1889), Ada (B 1891), and Edwin (B 1894).
Baptised on 2 April 1899, in the Parish Church, Abbots Langley, aged 6.
1901 Census records Jesse aged 8, at School, living with his parents and 5 Siblings at Keepers Lodge, Long Wood, Abbots Langley, Herts.
1911 Census records Jesse aged 18, working as a Paper Printer, living with his parents and four siblings in Alexander Road, Kings Langley, Herts.
Wartime Service
Jesse enlisted at Bedford, Beds. Posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 25577.
He was Killed in Action on 12 April 1918, in the area of Mesnil-Martinsart, Somme, France. The CWGC record show 1, Officer, 1, Company Serjeant Major and 4 other ranks from the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were killed that day and buried together possibly by the Germans. The bodies were later recovered and reburied in the CWGC Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Lancashire Dump).
Additional Information
The Army Register of Soldiers Effects has Jesse down as " Jesse Hard", the value of his effects were £16-0s-10d, Pay Owing and £9-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his mother Emma Hart. His mother was awarded a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6 November 1918, on her death in 1926, it went to his farther George Hart.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
