Name
Harry Hubbard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/07/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
17679
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 4
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at 7, Queen St. Hitchin. He married in 1916 and his wife lived with her mother, Mrs King, in Barnard's Yard, Hitchin. He was the only son of the late Mr and Mrs H. Hubbard. Another address given for him was 1, Chapman's Yard, Hitchin.
Before the war he had been an errand boy at Mrs Logsdon's confectionery shop in Hitchin Market Square. He was born, resided and enlisted in Hitchin in September 1914.
Wartime Service
Harry was given Regimental Number 17679. He had volunteered in September 1914 and was sent to France that same month. When not serving as a fighting man he worked in the shoemaker's shop. He served with the 1st Battalion on the Marne, Albert, Festubert, Loos, Arras, the Somme and Cambrai. In 1915 he was wounded in the back with over a dozen pieces of shrapnel and left hospital at some time in 1916. He was killed in action at Ypres.
On the 20th July 1918 a small attack was made by ‘A’ Company and the enemy driven over the Plattebecque stream. There were 17 casualties and a considerable amount of gas shelling took place.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panel 4 of the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. The Memorial is contained as part of the Royal Berkshire Comer Cemetery Extension 1km north of Ploegsteert.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
