Name
Albert Edward Honour
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/01/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4149
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot I, Row B, Grave 22.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of William Batson and Kate (nee SMITH) HONOUR.
His parents married 6 February 1883 at St Peter’s, Berkhamsted, Herts. William died 1920 in Watford aged 55, and was buried 31 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Kate remarried 1922 in the Watford district to Daniel HICKS. She died 1945 in Watford aged 80, and was buried 3 December, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery; Daniel died 1953 in Watford aged 80, and was buried 12 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Albert was born 1895 in Watford, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a grocer’s assistant aged 16, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 10 July 1915, and died at No. 46 Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about Albert in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 3 February 1917. Unfortunately, Albert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the Worlds War Two bombing. Albert is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
