Name
Enoch Hayward
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
?
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
200547
South Staffordshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial
Pre War
Enoch Hayward was born in 1884 in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, to Enoch Hayward, watchman, and Dinah (nee Perkins).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Matthew Henry (born 1881), Enoch (born 1884) and Harold (born 1888) were living at William Street, Kingswinford, Brierley Hill.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Matthew (draper’s clerk), Enoch (apprentice printer compositor) and Harold (apprentice boot & shoe maker) were living at William Street, Kingswinford, Brierley Hill.
On the 1911 census Enoch (printer) was living as a boarder with the Davis family at 95 Higginbotham St Macclesfield, Macclesfield, Cheshire
He was an employee at Letchworth Printers on the Citizen.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Enoch, he enlisted in the 1/5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment as Private 9075 probably soon after the outbreak of the Great War. !st/5 Battalion were part of the Staffordshire Brigade, North Midland Division (a Territorial Force Unit). Enoch went to France with the Division on 3 Mar 1915. The division moved at first to the Lys valley and by the end of Mar had moved to a sector of the front line at Ploegsteert, where it received instruction from the experienced regular 4th Division. It then spent the spring on the Messines ridge front, south of the Ypres salient. During June 1915 it moved north into the notoriously hostile and dangerous Ypres front. The Division encountered the German liquid fire attack at Hooge (30-31 Jul 1915).
Enoch suffered from Rheumatic cold in Aug 1915.
The division left the Ypres area in early Oct and on 23 Dec 1915 the division was ordered to proceed to Egypt, this order was countermanded and the Division returned to France in Feb 1916 to the Somme Front. They took part in the diversionary attack at Gommecourt (1 July 1916) intended to prevent German reinforcements to the Battle of the Somme Enoch was reported missing on 1 Jul 1916 and his death presumed for that day. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £8 and arrears of £17 11s was paid to his father Enoch. 200547 was attached to Enoch in the Territorial Numbering scheme of 1917.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
