Name
Harry Loveday
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/11/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/241598
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 9
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ashwell Village Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ashwell
Pre War
Son of Simon Loveday; husband of Mrs. Ethel Gladys. Loveday (nee Skerman.
Enlisted on 08/03/1916.
He married on 10/11/1917 in Ashwell, he was reported as missing in action just 20 days later. Lived at Swan House, Ashwell.
Wartime Service
Gunshot wound to lip 11/09/1916 and was returned to his unit 22/09/1916. *1
He married on 10/11/1917 in Ashwell, he was reported as missing in action just 20 days later. Lived at Swan House, Ashwell. Although reported as missing in action it was not officially accepted that he died until 16/09/1918.
An article appeared in the Hertfordshire Express on the 16th of February 1918 stating that his wife had received news that Harry had been missing since the 30th of November. He had been in action for only six days after returning to France and it was thought by his friends that he may be a prisoner of war.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts
