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James Haughan
British Army Machine Gun Corps
My grand father, James Haughan (Born 1897) enlisted from 3 Hobart Terrace, Moorville, Carlisle in Jan 1916. The house is now 16 Kingstown Road. He was a fireman on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when enlisted. He signed up to 4th Border Regiment at 18 years, 5 months as a railway fireman on 18th Jan 1916. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps.
He was demobbed in Oct 1919 to 9 Summerfield Street, Glasgow. He missed out on his gold watch for long service to the railway because he volunteered, had he been conscripted, he would have got it!
Pte. James Haughey
British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Consett, Co.Durham
(d.7th February 1916)
Pte. Michael Haughey
British Army 27th (Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Leadgate, Durham
(d.1st July 1916)
Mick Haughey joined up when over age, and he need not have gone to war. He was the English-born son of an Irishman from Tyrone and he worked at the Consett Iron Company. He was killed on the first day, but he was never found. Mick is remembered on memorials at Leadgate, Consett and at Thiepval in France. His widow died within six months, leaving three young boys and a girl who also died soon after. One of the orphaned boys, Jimmy, is my father, and I took him and my son to the Somme on my dad's 91st birthday to the battlefield where Mick Haughey's remains lie.
Pte. Thomas Haughey
British Army 12th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Consett, Durham
(d.17th August 1917)
A. J. Haughton
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Gnr. James Robert Hauxwell
British Army 160th Bde. Ammunition Col Royal Field Artillery
from:Helmington Row, Crook, Durham
(d.31st Mar 1916)
Pte. Stanley Hauxwell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. W. Hauxwell
Army 2/9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Rfmn. Frank G Havard
British Army 1st/5th Btn. London Regiment
(d.1st July 1916)
Frank Havard died on the first day of the Battle of The Somme at Gommecourt. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He left a widow and several young children one of whom was my nan.
Never Forgotten
Cpl. John Allan Havelock MM.
British Army 18th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Felling, Gateshead
(d.16th Apr 1918)
John Havelock is recorded on a memorial plaque (in my possession). He was an employee of the Windy Nook and District Co-Operative Society Ltd. and a member of Felling Primitive Methodist Chapel. The Methodist Archives for the Newcastle upon Tyne District are relocating to Felling and the memorial is to be returned to its original home.
Pte. Joseph Havelock
British Army 8th Btn "C" Coy. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.5th Mar 1916)
Joseph Havelock who died aged 35 was born in Morton Colliery Durham. He was the son of Sarah Jane Havelock of Hebburn Colliery and the late John Henry Havelock and the husband of Hannah Ruddick (late Havelock nee Smith) of 14 Derby Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census Joseph Havelock age 31 is listes as a General Labourer in Shipyard living with his wife Hannah Havelock and children at 17 Nancen Street, Jarrow
Joseph is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Oliver Havens
British Army 3rd Btn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
from: Queen's Gate, London.
(d.27th November 1918)
Private Havens wasthe Husband of A. Havens, of 9, Manson Place, Queen's Gate, London.
He was 39 when he died and is buried Right of the Church from the entrance of the Templemichael Church of Ireland, Templemichael, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Evelina Haverfield
Women's Emergency Corps
from:England
Evelina Haverfield was a suffragette but she was also a prominent nurse, and devoted much of her life to helping those who were injured and suffering on the Serbian front. The daughter of a Scottish Baron, the upper-class Haverfield joined the suffragette cause in London and was arrested three times, once for hitting a policeman. When war broke out, though, Haverfield founded the Women's Emergency Corps to help the war effort in England, and promptly left for Serbia to help Elsie Inglis at her war hospital. Haverfield's devotion to the Serbian front lasted long after the war. She and Flora Sandes started an organization to give relief to the Serbian people, and she returned to Serbian territory after hostilities ended to found an orphanage for Serbian war orphans. She died there in 1920 of pneumonia.
Sgt. Harold Sidney Haviland
British Army 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:15 Pembroke Street, Gloucester
(d.24th Mar 1918)
Pte. George Smith Havinden
British Army Queen's Westminster Rifles 1/16 Btn. London Regiment
from:20 Surrey Road, Peckham Rye, London
George Smith Havinden was born on the 3rd of June 1894 in Camberwell/Dulwich, Surrey. His parents were George Smith Havinden a Bonnet Manufacturer, born 29 January 1861 in Bethnal Green (died 1 May 1908); married on 28 December 1891 to Sally (Sarah) Elizabeth Davies, born 31 March 1859 in Bermondsey (died 10 February 1949). Sister: Maud Havinden, born 25 December 1892 in Dulwich, died 24 April 1996 in Croydon, Surrey.
Outline of Great War history: These dates have been taken from 46 postcards sent by George to his mother. The postcards have been donated to the National Army Museum but scans have been retained. There are also 29 postcards/photographs without inscriptions; in twelve of these, George can be identified.
- c. May 1915: Joined up 2nd Battalion Queen’s Westminster Rifles (2/16 County of London Regiment), B Company 8 Platoon – Private 2734 (later 550622)
- 17 – 20 May 1915: Marched from Watford(?) to Saffron Walden.
- 20 May – Aug 1915: Training.
- 17 Aug 1915: To France, Active Service – C Company, 12 Platoon.
- Early Sept 1915: Rouen, convalescing (diarrhoea).
- 16 – 28 Sept 1915: Active Service Ypres.
- 20 Nov – 4 Dec 1915: Active Service Rouen, No. 2 Territorial Base; on 30 November, changed to 1/16 County of London Regiment, QWR, C Company, 12 Platoon.
- 13 Apr – 9 Oct 1916: Hospitalized to Urmston Military Hospital, Blackwater Road, Eastbourne – Urmston V. A. D., Sussex /2. Newspaper cutting shows he was then attached to 182 R. E.
- 27 Jun – 7 Aug 1917: Active Service Le Havre, QWR 14 Camp 7th IBD (Infantry Base Depot?).
- On 10 July, moved to Rouen, 1/16 London Regiment, 56th Divisional Depot Battalion, C Company, 12 Platoon.
- On 13 July, moved to Frevent (changed on 17 July to 10 Platoon).
- On 29 July, moved to St Omer.
- n 7 August, moved to Poperinghe. George lost an eye in the War. Since there are no further postcards, perhaps the injury occurred in August 1917 and he was invalided out.
In Civilian life George worked for the Statistics Branch, Ministry of Transport, Whitehall Gardens. he lived with his mother and sister Maud in Peckham Rye. Moved with them to Selsdon, Surrey in c. 1932. and continued living there with his sister after their mother died in 1949 until his death in 1981.
Sgt. William Haw
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:16 Fairfield Street, Darlington
William is recorded as Haw, William. 16 Fairfield Street, Sergt 245031 18th DLI in the Roll of Honour held in Darlington Library, believed to have been complied by the Town Council in the 1920s.
Pte. Oldfield Hawarth
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancashire
(d.6th Aug 1915)
Oldfield Hawarth lived at 138 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lancashire. He died 6th August 1915, aged 18 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. CWGC has his surname as Haworth.
Spr. A. S. Hawes
British Army 30 Coy. Royal Engineers
I have a copy of Wood Finishing - A book owned by and signed Sapper A S Hawes, 30th Coy Royal Engineers, Elphinstone Barracks, Plymouth dated 2.10.16
C. H. Hawes
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
The unit war diary records that C.H.Hawes was wounded at St Eloi by a Machine Gun bullet in his leg, whilst going to the trenches.
Pte. Charles Godfrey Hawes
British Army 7th Batt Queens Royal West Surrey
from:South Lopham, Norfolk
(d.18th Nov 1916)
Charles Godfrey Hawes died whilst storming a trench on the 18th of November 1916. He is buried in a small cemetery at Stump Road, Grandcourt.
Pte. George Edward Hawes
British Army 1st Batt Essex Regiment
from:South Lopham, Norfolk
(d.20th Nov 1917)
George Hawes was born in South Lopham. He died on 20th of November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai where he is buried. His brother was killed almost to the day in 1916 on the 18th November.
Pte. Albert Cross Hawke
British Army 12th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Bolton
My grandfather Albert Hawke lied about his age to go to WW1 as he was too young. He fought in France and Salonika and was wounded at some point and treated by a German doctor. He chose not to speak about the war, therefore, as his granddaughter I have very few details of his war years. My grandparents migrated to Australia after his retirement and he is buried in Victoria having lived into his eighties.
Pte. Sydney Charles Hawke
British Army 604th Mechanical Transport Company Army Service Corps
from:Hayle, Cornwall
Pte. William John Hawke
British Army 10th Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
from:St.Cleer, Cornwall
(d.27th July 1916)
William Hawke joined the Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry in January 1916 and the 10th Battalion at a camp in Hayle. After a period of training the Battalion moved to Southampton 16th -17th June 1916 and crossed to Le Havre France on the SS Princess Clementine on the 19th -20th June 1916.
They moved to Viller aux Bois repairing defense works, then on the 25th July, with the 2nd Infantry Division, to Bray sur Somme near Albert and to the Front Line at Delville Wood.
On the 27th July 1916, supporting an attack by the 99th Brigade of the 2nd Division, he was killed in action. He served 37 days in France.
Pte. Frederick Hawker
British Army 7th Btn South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.9th Aug 1915)
Frederick Hawker was killed in action on 9 August 1915 and has no known grave. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.
Mjr. Lanoe George Hawker VC, DSO.
Royal Flying Corps 24 Sqdn
from:Eastbourne
(d.23rd Nov 1916)
Lanco hawker was killed in action on the 23rd of November 1916, aged 25. Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial in Arras, France, he was the son of Mrs Julia Hawker, of 5 Victoria Terrace, Eastbourne and the late Lieut. Henry Colley Hawker, R.N.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 24th Aug., 1915, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and very great ability on 25th July, 1915. When flying alone he attacked three German aeroplanes in succession. The first managed eventually to escape, the second was driven to ground damaged, and the third, which he attacked at a height of about 10,000 feet, was driven to earth in our lines, the pilot and observer being killed. The personal bravery shown by this Officer was of the very highest order, as the enemy's aircraft were armed with machine guns, and all carried a passenger as well as the pilot.
Pte. Robert Harcourt Hawker
British Army 201st Btn. Machine Gun Corp
from:West Ham, London
(d.19th Jun 1919)
Private Robert Harcourt Hawker 155424 drowned on active service in the River Divina, North Russia 19th June 1919 age 19 years
Pte. Thomas Henry Hawker
British Army 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment
(d.14 April 1917)
Thomas Henry Hawker died on 14 April 1917, Arras Memorial
Pte. Frederick James Hawkes
South African Army 1st (Cape of Good Hope) Regiment
from:St. Marylebone, London
(d.24th March 1918)
Frederick Hawkes was born in Bedford on 15th January 1878, son of George and Rosamund May Hawkes. The 1911 census shows him boarding at 75 Hallam Street, St. Marylebone, London, aged 32 years employed as a Draper in a Silk Department (presume Department Store).
He served with the 1st Regiment, South African Infantry and died on 24th March 1918 aged 40 years on the Somme. He is buried in Hem Farm Military Cemetery, France He was a pupil of Bedford Modern School 1886-92, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
Cpl. Ernest Alfred Hawkesworth
British Army 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
(d.16th August 1917)
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