Name
Benjamin Hart
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/24341
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3
Plot XIV, Row F, Grave 17.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Possibly the son of Aaron and the late Dinah (nee BITTAN) HART.
Aaron and Dinah married 1886 in the Whitechapel, London, district. Dinah died 1909 in the London city district aged 42. Aaron remarried 1913 in the London City district to Flora ZWART, and died 14 May 1929 in London aged 61.
Benjamin was born in St Luke’s, Middx, possibly in 1893.
If so, on the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Aldgate, London, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, a fish fryer aged 17, he lived in Houndsditch, London, with his widowed father and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Finsbury, Middx, and was formerly Private 389454 Labour Corps. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Benjamin’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
