Name
Thomas Rock H Munt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/04/1919
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
WR/283838
Royal Engineers
1st Fore way Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. POL BRITISH CEMETERY, ST. POL-SUR-TERNOISE
III. E. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, 4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
His home address was 13, Cannon Cottages, Hitchin and he was the son of Henry and Ada Bella Munt.
Wartime Service
He was mobilised at the beginning of the Great War and in November 1914 was posted to the Western Front. Initially he was with ‘G’ Company of the Hertfordshire Regiment and he saw four years of service at Ypres, Arras, Passchendaele and on the Somme.
In November 1914 he wrote to his mother saying that he had had a narrow escape when a bullet hit the butt end of his rifle and thereby saved his life. He died of illness contracted during his service. His name does not appear in the ‘Soldiers died’ database volumes of either the Hertfordshires or the Royal Engineers. His Service Number in the Royal Engineers was WR/283838 and during the time that he served with them he was in the 1st Foreway Company.
He was buried in Plot 3, Row E, Grave 14 in the St. Pol British Cemetery in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
