Name
Edward Hildred Hanbury Carlile
28th January 1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield In Memoriam Book, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church Hertford, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral, Ponsbourne St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Newgate Street, We are not aware of any memorial in Ponsbourne Park, Harrow School WW1 Memorial, Trinity Collage, Cambridge, Roll of Honour
Pre War
Edward Hildred Hanbury Carlile was born in Meltham, Yorkshire, on 28th January 1881, son of Edward Hildred Carlile (B 1853 in Brixton, Surrey) and Isabella Carlile (nee Hanbury) (B 1856 in Stock Newington). One of five children and the only son. He was Baptised on 13th March 1881, in the Parish of Meltham Hill, Yorkshire.
The 1881 Census lists Edward H.H. Carlile, age 2mths, with his father, Edward Hildred Carlile, a cotton thread manufacture, and mother visiting an Elizabeth Hanbury in Wellington.
In 1891 Census records Edward aged 10, at school, living with his parents, sisters, Dora 12, Beatrice 8, Janet 6 and Eleanor 5, at Helm Hall, Helme, Meltham, Yorks.
Edward was educated at Harrow school and Trinity Collage, Cambridge.
Although not found in 1901, the 1911 Census record Edwards family living at Ponsbourne Park, near Hertford, Newgate Street, Herts, and his father was the Member Of Parliament for St Albans. Edward was not living with the family.
On 8th august 1917, Edward married Ruth Millicent Dawson, the daughter of William Henry Dawson (who was in the military) in All Souls Church, Langham Place, St. Marylebone, London.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted in September 1914, joining the Hertfordshire Yeomanry.
The London Gazette, 4th January 1918 recorded: "Capt. E. H. H. Carlile to be acting Major, whilst employed. on the Headquarters. of a Yeomanry Cyclists Regiment. 17th-Dec. 1917. Captain Carlile served in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry in England until posted to the front. He landed in France on the 19th January 1918 and joined the battalion on the front lines the following day. Two months later he was posted as missing during the opening phase of the German offensive near Peronne, and was later confirmed as having been killed on the 22nd March."
He was the only son of Colonel, Sir Hildred Carlile, 1st Bart., C.B.E. and the late Lady Carlisle, of Ponsbourne Park near Hertford and the husband of Ruth M. Carlile (later Mrs. Preston). He has no known grave but is remembered on the Arras memorial to the missing, on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry panel.
Additional Information
Listed as Captain on the Hertfordshire Memorial and sometimes as Carlisle. The value of his effects were £208-5s-0d, the recipient was not given.
Edward is also commemorated on his family’s grave in Ponsbourne (Or Newgate Street) (St. Mary) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
EDWARD HILDRED HAMBURY CARLILE MAJOR HERTS YEOMANRY ATTACHED HERTS REGIMENT
BORN JANUARY 28TH 1881 KILLED IN ACTION MARCH 22ND 1918 NEAR VILLERS FOUCON FRANCE.
THE DEAR HUSBAND OF RUTH MILLICENT CARLILE AND THE ONLY SON OF SIR EDWARD HILDRED CARLILE BARONET OF PONSBOURNE, C.B.E. AND ISABELLA HIS WIFE.
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Col. Sir Hildred Carlile (Father) of Ponsbourne Park received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album
Edward’s father wrote in receipt of the album:
From Col. Sir Hildred Carlile, Bart., CBE.
Ponsbourne Park
Near Hertford
Herts
8th November 1920.
Dear Vicar.
Many thanks for the copy of the Hatfield Peace Souvenir which you have kindly brought me.
I return herewith the form duly signed.
I shall take an early opportunity of handing the very beautiful book to my Son’s widow.
Yours sincerely, Hildred Carlile
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
