Name
Henry (Harry) Latchford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1917
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30436
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 18 to 19
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mills, Croxley Green
Pre War
Harry’s birth was registered in the Hemel Hempstead district in the second quarter of 1878.
In 1901 he was living with his parents, William and Emma Latchford, in Harwoods Road, Watford and working as a foreman carter. In 1903 he married Laura, nee Woodbridge, and in 1911 the family was living at 6 Cassiobridge Cottages, Croxley Green. By that stage they had three sons living and one that had died. Harry, aged 33, described himself as a foreman carter.
When he enlisted in 1916 he recorded his residence as Croxley. (According to the National Roll of the Great War, Harry Latchford’s home was in Batchworth Hill, Rickmansworth).
The Army paid Laura 6s 6d when he died and a war gratuity of £5 10s.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Harry Latchford volunteered in 1916 and was killed in action at Poelcapelle during the Third Battle of Ypres. The battalion advanced along the Langemarck-Staden railway on 4th October 1917 at the battle of Broodseinde, and on 9th October at the battle of Poelcapelle. On 11th they were forming up for a further attack on the Passchendaele Heights.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson
