Name
Harry Haylock
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1914
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7573
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hockerill, All Saints Church Memorial Board, Hockerill
Pre War
Harry Haylock was born in Ely, Cambs in 1883 to George Haylock and Susannah (nee Cross). Mary Ann (born 1873).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents,), Hannah (born 1880), William (born 1876), George (born 1879) and Hannah (born 1881) and Jane (born 1890) were living in Wisbech Road, March, Cambs where his father was a Great Eastern Railway Guard.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Hannah, and Jane were living at Stort Road, Bishops Stortford.
Harry married Minnie Beatrice Saggs in 1905 at Bishops Stortford.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife at 18 Dunmow Road, Bishops Stortford and working as a domestic gardener. She was working at home as a dressmaker. They had no children. Harry’s parents were living at London Road, Thorley, Bishops Strortford and had 4 juvenile boarders.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Harry. He enlisted in London as Private 7573 Essex Regiment and posted to 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, arriving with the British Expeditionary Force on 14 Sep 1914.
He was killed in action on 22 Nov 1914 at the end of the 1st Battle of Ypres and his body was not recovered for burial. Most of those commemorated on the Ploegsteert memorial did not die in major offensives but were killed in the course of day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line, or in small engagements, usually carried out in support of major attacks taking place elsewhere.
Additional Information
His widow Minnie received a War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £4 11s 9d. She was awarded a pension of 10 shillings a week from 14 Jun 1915.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
