Name
Harold Bentley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Sergeant
3098
London Regiment *1
13th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
Plot I, Row G, Grave 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Beechen Grove Baptist Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Henry/Harry and Kate (nee SKINNER) BENTLEY of Watford.
His parents married 1885 in the Registry Office, Altrincham, Chesh. Kate died 4 August 1939 in Watford aged 78, and was buried 8 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Harold was born 30 June 1889 in Watford. He attended first Sotheron Road Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School, Watford, from 13 January 1896 to 29 March 1904. He resided in Watford, and worked for the London & North Western Railway Company in the Publicity Department of the General Manager’s Department, Euston.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he still lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a railway clerk aged 21, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 3 September 1914 in Kensington, London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 March 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Harold’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is a Death announcement for Harold in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 5 June 1915. Recorded as Sergeant in the Borough Roll of Honour.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
