Name
Harold Watts Hayman
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
3754
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
1st/9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Harold Watts Hayman was born in Street, Somerset, in 1895, son of John Stephen Hayman a, Grocer and Marianne Jane Hayman (nee Green). One of five children.
1901 Census records Harold aged 6, living with his parents, brother Herbert (13), sister’s Emily (11) and Marjorie (10) at 116 High Street, Street, Somerset. Sister Emily died in 1906.
1911 Census records Harold aged 16, working as a Drapers Assistant, living with his parents, sister Marjorie (10) and brother Ambrose (9) at, 5 Springdale Villas, Crossbrook Street, Cheshunt/Waltham Cross, Herts. The family had a boarder Mary Payne a Teacher.
Wartime Service
In November 1914 Harold travelled to London and enlisted in the 1st/9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victorias Rifles) issued with the service number 3754 (later 391090). On completion of his training, he was sent to France arriving on the 9th/10th May 1915.
Harold was Killed in Action on the 1st July 1916, at the Battle of Gommecourt (part of the Battle of the Somme 1st July to 18th Nov 1916) he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £4-16s-9d, pay Owing and his war gratuity of £7, went to his father John Hayman.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
