Name
Horace Oliver Dwight
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
266133
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Wigginton Village Memorial,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Tring Memorials
Pre War
Horace Oliver Dwight was born in 1894, in Wigginton, Herts, son of Albert Dwight (B 1872 in Wigginton) and Sarah Dwight (B 1867 in Wigginton).
1901 Census records Horace aged 7, at school, living with his parents, brothers Altimus 5 and Owen 6 months, near The Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
By 1911 Horace had left school and was working as a Farm Labourer, living with his parents, brothers Altimus 16, Owen 10 and Ernest 5, near The Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted in the County Town of Hertford, posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment, formerly with the Service No. 3806, then 266133. His medal card indicates he landed in France in July 1915.
He was Killed in Action at Passchendaele on 21st September 1917. He has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing. Panel 153.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £10-15s-9d, Pay Owing and £16-10s-0d, War Gratuity, which went to his mother Sarah.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
