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2Lt. Harold William Hague
British Army D Battery, 47th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Edgbaston, Birmingham
(d.16th June 1918 )
Harold Hague was killed in action on 16th of June 1918, and as the War Diary does not mention gas, presumably he died when the position was shelled. He was aged 23. He is buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, in France.
L/Cpl. Isaac Hague
British Army 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Nottingham
(d.13 August 1917)
Isaac Hague joined the Sherwood Foresters in 1911/12. Before that he worked as a carriage hand for Swift & Wass Ltd, lace making machinery manufacturers at the Victoria Works in Basford.
He served in India with the Sherwood Foresters for almost year between 1913 and 1914 and in August 1916 he transfered to the Irish Fusiliers. He was posted to France in 1914 and again in 1916. He was (slightly) wounded in action in 1915. He was made a Lance Corporal in October 1916. He died of wounds on August 13th 1917 and he is buried in the Brandhoek Military Cemetry near Ypres in Belgium.
Isaac's parents were Benjamin and Laura Hague and in 1915 he married Jennie Francis.
Pte. Kenneth Hague
British Army 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Filey
(d.1st July 1916)
Ken Hague was killed in action on 1st July 1916 in France. He left behind him a wife, Alice, and four girls, Alice, Ethel, Christiana and Marjorie. He was born in Sheffield in 1879 and married Alice Sayers on 29th January 1899. Before joining up, he had worked as a file cutter. Why he volunteered for the Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry is not known, but he left Sheffield and went out with them to South Africa to fight the Boer War in March 1901. He came home in May 1902 and settled down to family life. He and Alice and the two younger girls moved to Filey in North Yorkshire, where Alice was originally from.
Pte. Ernest Albert Hahner
British Army 2nd Battalion Border Regiment
from:18 Disraeli Road, Harlesden, Middlesex
(d.16th May 1915)
Ernest Hahner was the fifth son of Prussian/German immigrants who lived in St Pancras. The family suffered extreme prejudice as the war progressed, despite the fact their mother, and each of their twelve children had been born in London. To demonstrate his loyalty to the country, Albert Hahner Snr applied for British Naturalisation. This was granted partly on the strength of the fact he had five sons serving overseas, three in the Army and two in the RAMC. The four older brothers all survived and returned to the UK, while Ernest was killed at The Battle of Festubert seven months after he enlisted, aged 18. He has no known grave but is commemorated at Le Touret Memorial at Richebourg, France
Lt.Col. Alan Roderick Haig-Brown DSO.
British Army 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
(d.25th Mar 1918)
Col Alan Haig-Brown, Commanding Officer, 23rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, as seen by his adjutant Capt George Smith.
An infantry colonel gives orders: his adjutant sees that the orders are carried out. With a good colonel it is, perhaps, the best job in the army: with a bad colonel, who doesn't back you up, it can be hell.
I was lucky. Haig-Brown was all that is implied in the term gentleman. I wasn't alone in almost worshiping him. The men loved him, he believed that they should know the reason for orders and treated them as human beings, not just cannon fodder. He was always available to hear protests or complaints from anyone at all. The fact that under Colonel Ash, he had been attached to higher commands paid handsome dividends. He knew the people there personally and was popular with them too. When we got some damn fool order, as too often we did, he could pick up the phone to Brigade, Division, or Corps and say, "Is that you, Bill? What the deuce is this last foolishness?" and get it ironed out in a matter of minutes.
There was always a certain competition to go round the trenches with him during the day and again at night, we called it The Bus: the call would go out, "Who's for The Bus?" and various members of H.Q. would join us. I went as a matter of course, it was my job. I've seen him look into a mirror, put his tie and hat straight as he said, "Dammit. If we're going to be killed well die like gentlemen!" He hated wearing a tin hat, wore it on his elbow, hanging by the strap, to be quickly whipped onto his head if something burst too close, holding it there until the bits had finished falling. He was welcome everywhere and usually left the men laughing.
Out of the trenches he believed in battalion drill as the best way of getting the men to feel, after the isolation of the trenches, that they belonged to a unit. On parade, if I did something daft, he would damn me to hell in front of everyone: afterwards, in the mess, he would put his arm round my shoulders and say, "Sorry, Georgie, but you were a damn fool, weren't you," and there were no hard feelings. I think he had run the O.T.C. at Lancing. Anyway, he knew his job. And he could handle English: his letters were a joy.
Once we got a complaint from the Brigade School that the explosion of a Bangalore torpedo had broken the windows in an adjoining farmhouse and asking that we pay for the damage. He raised his eyebrows at me and asked, "Is that anything to do with us?" I said, "Nothing whatever, sir." "You're sure?" "Quite sure, sir." He replied courteously, regretting the accident, but saying that he "could no more accept financial responsibility than if an S.O.S. rocket fired from the East Coast had landed on the roof of The Crystal Palace", ending as usual "I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant". We got an abject apology in a matter of hours.
Cpl. Arthur Haigh
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Thornes Lane, Wakefield, Yorks.
(d.27th July 1918)
Cpl Arthur Haigh died of wounds received in action in France. He is remembered with honour in the Marfeux British Cemetery at Marne, France in plot III-H-8.
Cpl. Arthur Haigh
British Army 2/4th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Wakefield, Yorkshire
(d.27th July 1918)
Pte. Francis Edward Haigh
British Army 3rd Dragoon Guards
from:Wakefield, Yorks
(d.1st July 1915)
Francis Haigh arrived in the Ypres Salient on 18/5/1915. On the 1st June 1915 he was killed in action; 13 days after joining his unit in the trenches. Apparently on 1st June 1915, there was some heavy shelling of the British front line at Hooge, Belgium. Private Francis Haigh is commemorated with others of the 3rd Dragoon Guards who have no known grave, on the relevant panel of The Menin Gate at Ypres. Rest in Peace.
Sgt. George Haigh MM
British Army 180 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Sgt. Harry Kershaw Haigh
British Army 3rd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Milnrow
My grandfather, Harry Haigh, was born in Rochdale on the 21st of September 1880, the youngest child of James Henry and Sarah. The family moved to live in Milnrow near Rochdale, the birthplace of his mother. Harry had been a soldier in the Manchester Regiment from 1902 until 1910 and was then in the National Army Reserve until he was called up at the outbreak of WW1. He had married in 1911 and had a daughter in 1912 and at the time they lived in Heywood near Rochdale
He rejoined on the 24th of September 1914 as a Lance Corporal in the 3rd Manchesters and on the 9th of November he was posted to the 1st Manchesters and was sent to France with them.
In December 1914 he was fighting in the Battle of Givenchy and in June 1915 he suffered a shell wound to his forehead and then a bout of enteric fever whilst with No. 2 Company of the 1st Manchesters, and was transferred to D on the 16th of July that year. He was sent to a war hospital in Preston, perhaps Dunstan House?, Lancashire.
He returned to service on the 6th of October 1915 and was posted to the 3rd Manchesters as an unpaid Lance Corporal, still serving in France and at some point in 1916 was posted B.S.O. to the 2nd Manchesters as a Lance Corporal and in September that year was again transferred, this time to the 21st Manchesters and by the 21st of September had been promoted to Corporal.
In 1917 he was at Mailly, France with the 21st Manchesters and on the 12th of January he was injured by a shell entering his forehead and he was sent to Bellhouston Red Cross Hospital in Glasgow on the 23rd of January 1917. His promotion to Sergeant came through before this attack and he rejoined the 3rd Manchesters as a Sergeant on the 10th of April 1917, remained in England and was posted to the 70th Training Reserve Battalion as an instructor. On the 14th May 1918 he was attached to the NCO's School as an instructor and was discharged from the Army on 31st of March 1920 having served 18 years 42 days.
He was awarded the 1914 Star, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. He died in 1943 and is buried in Heywood Cemetery, Lancashire with his wife who had died a month earlier.
Pte. James Haigh
British Army 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
from:Womersley, Yorkshire
(d.7th May 1916)
James Haigh was born in 1892 in Womersley, Yorkshire West Riding and first served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (reg no 25355). How he came to serve with the Leicestershire Regiment is unknown.
He married Florence Oliver in 1910 and they had two children - Ethel born 1911 and James R born 1913. Jim was killed in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) on 7th May 1916 and is buried in Basra Cemetery.
Pte. Sidney Haigh
British Army 8th Btn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Morley, Yorkshire.
(d.8th Jun 1917)
Sidney Haigh was 19 years old, married and had one daughter. He lost his life on the 8th of June 1917, he has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Lt. Victor Louis Bosker Haigh MC.
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
Lt. Victor Haigh is buried in Camden, NSW, Australia. His faded gravestone indicates he won an MC. The Supplement to the London Gazette 26th of July 1918 details his act of gallantry: "For Conspicuous Gallantry and devotion to duty. He kept close touch with the field batteries and placed his section in positions of extreme danger, in order to protect the batteries. On one occasion he stopped a panic, collecting stragglers and leading them to high ground, where they were most urgently needed. He had crashed one enemy aeroplane and has many times kept his guns firing until forced by heavy fire to withdraw."
Camden has a special project going at the moment "Camden Remembers" and we would like further information about him.
Pte. Peter Hailey
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
(d.1st July 1916)
Peter Haley is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. William Hails
British Army 7th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.30th May 1916)
William Hails died aged 24. Born in South Shields he lived in Jarrow. He was the son of Elizabeth Jane Hails (nee Burnside) and the late James Hails of South Shields and the husband of Dora Johnson (formerly Hails nee Jobson) of 25 Philipson Street East Jarrow. On the 1911 census William Hails age 19 Lamp Lighter is recorded as living with his widowed mother Elizabeth Hails in South Shields. He enlisted at South Shields.
William is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery.
Pte. Charles Herbert Haines
British Army 15th Service Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Farnham
Thomas Noel Hains
British Army 12th Btn. London Regiment
from:Eastrington, Yorks
Pte Archie Hainsworth
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.1st July 1916 )
Pte. Arthur Hainsworth
British Army 6th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Leeds, Yorkshire
(d.15th April 1918)
Arthur Hainsworth was born in Leeds on 17th August 1893, the eldest of four children of Fred and Ethel Hainsworth. After school, he became an apprentice compositor in the printing industry. He married Alicia Jupp from Burley in Leeds on 27th November 1915.
During the war, Arthur enlisted in the 16th Btn West Yorkshire Regiment. He was transferred to the 12th Btn West Yorks and served with them in France until the battalion was disbanded after suffering heavy casualties on the Somme during the German counter-offensive of March 1918. He was transferred again to the 6th Dorsetshire Regiment and served with this unit until 15th April 1918, when he was killed, aged 24, by a German gas attack in the vicinity of Englebelmer. He is buried at Martinsart British Cemetery.
Capt. Owen Hairsine MC.
British Army 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Capt. Owen Hairsine MC.
British Army 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:London
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Owen Hairsine was my mother's uncle. I have his diaries and news clippings about his life at the front. I also have his scrapbook with lots of pictures. He opened the aid station at Hop Store west of Ypres and that is where he is buried.
Pte. William Haisman
British Army 11th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Yalding, Kent
2nd Lt. Benjamin Haizelden
British Army 2nd/10th Btn. London Regiment
from:Croydon, Surrey
(d.30th Aug 1918)
Second Lieutenant Benjamin Haizelden, son of John and Elizabeth Haizelden, of 35 Abbey Road, Croydon, Surrey, died on the Western Front aged 19. He is buried at Daours Communal Cemetery.
Pte John Haker
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:25, Coldwell Terrace, High Felling, Co. Durham
(d.26th Aug 1916)
Haker, John. Private, 19/1004, Died of wounds on 26th August 1916. Aged 42 years.
Buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme, in grave IV. A. 20.
Husband of Eleanor Cowen Haker, of 25, Coldwell Terrace, High Felling, Co. Durham.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Stoker Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.4 Aug 1914)
Abdul Hakim served in Remembered at . CPWW1
Lascar Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.3 May 1916)
Abdul Hakim served in Remembered at . WW1
Lascar Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.2 Apr 1917)
Hakim Abdul served in Remembered at . WW1
Lascar Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.20 Apr 1917)
Abdul Hakim served in Remembered at . WW1
Lascar Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.19 May 1917)
Abdul Hakim served in Remembered at . WW1
Stoker Abdul Hakim
Royal Indian Marine
(d.13 Jan 1918)
Abdul Hakim served in Remembered at . WW1
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