Name
Seymour Archibald Izzard
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4557
Irish Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY
IV. E. 17
France
Headstone Inscription
OUR BOY IS NOT DEAD BUT NOW SERVES THE KING OF KINGS
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Not on the Chipperfield Memorials, Ireland World War 1 Memorial Records
Pre War
Seymour Archibald Izzard was born in January 1898, in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, son of Arthur Izzard, a Domestic Gardener and Frances Elizabeth (nee Lord) Izzard. One of eleven children two died in childhood.
He was Baptised on 6 March 1898, in the Parish Church, Chipperfield.
1901 Census records Seymour aged 3, living with his parents, and brothers Arthur 4, Godfrey 2, and sister, Lilian 8 months in New Road, Shenley, Herts. His mother’s sister Norah Lord was living with the family.
1911 Census records Seymour 13, and brother Godfrey 11, as Inmates at the Church Farm House Boys Industrial School, Church Hill Road, East Barnet, Herts. He is recorded as at school and a Laundry Boy.
Seymour enlisted at Whitehall, London/Middx, joining the Irish Guards with the service number 4557. His service number indicates he enlisted in the early part of 1914, as a boy soldier, he would have been 16, at the time he enlisted.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war, the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards was stationed at Wellington Barracks, London. Mobilised for war, they landed at Le Havre, France on 13 August 1914.
It is not known when Seymour joined his Battalion in France, as he would have been a boy soldier when the Battalion left for France in 1914. He was Killed in Action on Tuesday 27 August 1918, aged 20, he is buried in the CWGC Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. F. E. Izzard, Fair Elms Cottages, Hatch End, Middx., ordered his headstone inscription: "OUR BOY IS NOT DEAD BUT NOW SERVES THE KING OF KINGS". His effects of £17-9s-7d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £23-10s-00d, went to his mother Frances Izzard. It is believed he lived at, 19, Ladysmith Road, St Albans, Herts, at one time.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Gareth Hughes
