Name
Amos Head
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/03/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3707
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
IV. A. 73.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Andrew’s Church Buckland & Chipping Memorial, Buckland, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born in 1887, in Chipping (a Hamlet), Buckland, Buntingford, to parents William and Mary Ann, he was one of ten children. He lived with members of his family in Chipping Hamlet in 1891 through to 1911, his father was a carpenter and joiner and in the 1911 census Amos is listed as a farm labourer. His parents were still living at the same address at the time of his death, so we are not sure of his connection to Bengeo.
Recorded as living in Hertford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford in the 1st Battn. Hertfordshire Regiment, which left for France on 6th November 1914. They were then transported to Flanders where they were in the line at Zillebeke before going into billets at Bethune.
In January1915 the battalion was in the line and in support around Givenchy. In February they took part in the battle at Cuincy when they supported an assault by the Coldstream and Irish Guards. At the beginning of March they were in reserve at Bethune again but were moved back up to Givenchy and on the 16th March while in the front line, digging, Amos was wounded and died later of these wounds.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild, Terry & Glenis Collins
