Name
Charles Henry Hunt
15 Oct 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/02/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12405
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
D. 4
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, East Hyde Village Memorial, East Hyde, Beds., Luton Hoo Memorial, Bedfordshire
Pre War
.Charles was born on 15 Oct 1892 in Harpenden to George Hunt and Lizzie (nee Nash). They were living at East Hyde, Luton.
By the 1901 Census the family were living at Thrales Farm Cottages, and on the 1911 Census Charles was a farm labourer working at Home farm on the Luton Hoo Estate.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment in Sep 1914.
He went France, in Jul 1916, serving with 7th Battalion, when, in Sep 1916 at Thiepval in France, he sustained a Gunshot Wound to his left thigh. He was treated in hospital in Sevenoaks, Kent. On recovery he returned to France with 4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion and again sustained a shrapnel wound on 2 Feb 1917 and died on 10 Feb 1917 at No 11 Casualty Clearing Station.
Additional Information
War Gratuity £11 and arrears of £13 18s 7d paid to father George.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Gareth Hughes, Felicity Brimblecombe, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
