Name
Mont E W Hoar
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Marlowes Methodist Church War Memorial, Hemel Hempstead, Not on the Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Mont (Montague) James Wells Hoar was born in 1866 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Thomas and Jane Hoar.
On the 1871 Census he was living with his widowed father and siblings at Popes Lane, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as a shoe maker.
He married Amelia Lane on 7 January 1894 at St Paul's Church, Hemel Hempstead but she died in 1898, having given birth to two children. He then married Sarah Shepherd on 7 January 1899 at St Paul's Church, Hemel Hempstead, and on the 1901 Census they were living at 6 Victoria Terrace, Hemel Hempstead, with sons Montague and Henry and daughter Kate. They remained at the same address in 1911 when he was working as a House Painter.
According to the National Roll of the Great War, he lived at 6 Victoria Terrace, Hemel Hempstead. He died in 1923.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in October 1914, aged 48, and initially enlisted with the Hertfordshire Regiment (Reg. No. 23940) but was transferred and served as a Private with the Royal Defence Corps (Reg. No. 13087).
According to the National Roll of the Great War, he was engaged in guarding bridges and military stores and other important duties. He rendered valuable services until he was demobilised on 13 March 1919.
Additional Information
Marlowes Methodist Church was one of the five churches that merged in 2006 to form Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church. The Marlowes Methodist Church building was built in 1890 and used regularly from then until 2006 and then again as the main Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church building from May 2012 until it finally closed in March 2014. The war memorial was removed from the building before demolition and passed to the local British Legion. The war memorial is unusual in that it names those who returned safely as well as those who died.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
mymethodisthistory.org.uk
