Name
Vincent Robertson Hoare
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/02/1915
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
London Regiment (The Rangers)
12th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. A. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Ware Town Memorial, Great Amwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Town Memorial, Colkirk, Norfolk, Eton College War Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1874 in Colkirk, Norfolk, son of Rev Walter Marsham and Jessie (Robertson) Hoare later of Milton House, Berkhamsted. He was living in the Rectory in Colkirk in 1891 and was at school at Eton.
He married Elsie Florence Hogg on 5 Nov 1901 in St Marylebone, London and lived at 37 Fleet Street, London and later at Milton House, Berkhamsted. They had five children
A banker’s agent to his cousin Edward Hoare in the City, he was living in 37 Fleet Street, London in 1911.
He played cricket for Cambridgeshire (1895-98) and Norfolk (1903-05).
Wartime Service
He was a trooper in the Suffolk Yeomanry in the South African War and then obtained a commission in the Rangers.
He entered France on 24 Dec 1914 with the 28th Division which was deployed to the front line of the Western Front around Ypres.
Additional Information
Educated at Eton College and a member of M.C.C.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
