Name
William Arthur Hewitt Hayes
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
27/05/1940
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
135444
Royal Indian Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROMER NO.2 BURIAL GROUND
Sec. D. Grave 27.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
PEACE AT LAST AND ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 135444 but the circumstances of his death have not been discovered. He died in the Registry area of North Walsham in Norfolk.
He was buried in Section D, Grave 27 in Cromer No. 2 Burial Ground, Norfolk. A private inscription on the headstone reads "At peace at last and always in our thoughts". This inscription suggests that he may have suffered from a long illness and may have still been on the strength of the Indian Army at the time of his death as he is not mentioned in the British ‘Army Roll of Honour’ .
He was the son of Thomas John Hayes and Eleanor Hayes (nee Hewitt) and husband of Marguerite Isabel Hayes of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, GRO Deaths Index 2nd Qtr 1940 Ref. 4b 170 (microfiche)
