Name
Herbert George Hayes (*1)
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/06/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/26415
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
XX1.E.6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross, Rochford Nurseries Memorial, St. Clements Church, Turnford, Not on the Barley memorial
Pre War
Herbert George Hayes was born in Barley, Hertfordshire in 1896, son of John Hayes a, Factory General Labourer and Mary Jane Hayes (nee Dyer). One of their three sons. His parents were married on 21st March 1885, in Barley, Herts.
John Hayes and Mary Jane Dyer were married in Barley, Herts, on the 21st March 1885.
His mother Mary died just after his berth in 1896, aged 30.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 4, living with his widowed father, brothers Isaac (11) and Frank (7), at the home of his Uncle Lewis Hayes and his wife Emma at, 37 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
1911 Census Herbert aged 14, is at school, living with his father and brother Isaac (21), at 37 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts. Both his father and brother Isaac are employed at the Royal Gunpowder Factory.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number G/26415.
On completion of his training, he was sent to France and served on the Western Front. He was Killed in Action in Belgium on the 21st June 1917, aged 21. He is buried in the CWGC Hooge Crater Cemetery, in Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £9-16s-6d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £4-10s-00d went to his father John.
*1 He is recorded as H C Hayes on the Cheshunt Town Memorial and H G Hayes on the Holy Trinity Church Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Adrian Pitts, Jonty Wild
