Name
Harry Thomas Hart
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1914
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/10028
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PONT-DU-HEM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE
Plot VI, Row F, Grave 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Woodchurch War Memorial, Kent
Pre War
Son of George Thomas Alfred and Susan Waller (nee HUMPHREY) HART.
His parents married 6 August 1892 at Woodchurch, Kent. Susan died 1944 in Wingham, Kent, aged 74, and was buried 22 May 1944 at St Mary the Virgin, Wingham; George died 1949 in Wingham aged 81, and was buried 16 February, also at St Marys.
Harry was born 1892 in Woodchurch.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Woodchurch, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a labourer on a farm aged 18, he still lived in Woodchurch, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He originally enlisted 11 February 1911 at Tenterden, Kent, and was discharged 11 December 1912 having enlisted in the Special Reserve in Canterbury, Kent: a waggoner’s mate aged 20, 5’3½“ tall, Wesleyan, unmarried.
He was at Home from 16 December 1912 to 13 August 1914, went to France 14 August 1914.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 15 August 1914, and died at 7th Field Ambulance, France, of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
He may appears as L/10026 in some records.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
