Name
John Hunt Hedley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/03/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th Bn., attached 8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
XVII. J. 8.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 25 Nov 1898 in 6 Ashbrooke Terrace, Sunderland, Durham son of John Hunt Hedley and Margaret Eveline (Doxford) Hedley later of 1 Elms West, Sunderland. Educated at Haileybury 1912-17, Captain of XV (1916-17).
Wartime Service
Formerly Private 54621 Durham Light Infantry, he obtained a commission in the 4th Middlesex on 25 Sep 1917 and entered France on 8 Feb 1918 and was killed in action one month later near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
