Name
Harry Vincent Warren
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
78219
Royal Fusiliers *1
9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUILLEMONT ROAD CEMETERY, GUILLEMONT
II. H. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield
Pre War
Harry (Henry) was the son of Alfred V and Hetty Warren, born in Hatfield circa 1900.
In the 1901 census the family, consisting of parents and six children: Alfred G (12), Edith M (10), Annie (7), Ada (5), Ellen (3) and Henry V (1) and were living in Union Lane, Hatfield. Alfred (father) was a groom coachman at a livery stable. In 1911 they were still in Union Lane, but now recorded as 9 and the elder three children had left the family home. Alfred is still working as a coachman.
Officially recorded as born in Hatfield when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Harry became Private 78219, 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of September 1918, recorded: “Hatfield Roll of Honour. As we go to press, we learn of the death of Private Henry Warren, 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action. We have as yet no details, but the fact he was under 19, tells that his death was a ready sacrifice for home and all that he held dear......”, and in December 1918: “Hatfield Roll of Honour. Our list, alas! of the dead is not yet at an end. By inadvertence we omitted from our last number the name of Harry Warren, of Union Lane, whose death should have appeared in the November Magazine. That one, who served for so long and so gallantly, should be killed at the very end of the war, must increase the sorrow for his father and sisters, for whom we feel much sympathy.”
Awarded the British War Medal, & Victory Medal.
Additional Information
*1 Probably more correctly (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
After his death his money owing of £3 13s 6d was authorised to his father on 29th January 1919 and his War Gratuity of £3 was authorised on 9th December 1919.
A pension of 5 shillings a week was given from 8th July 1919 plus arrears of 2 shillings
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mr A Warren (Father) of Union Lane, Hatfield, received an “In Memoriam & Roll of Honour Album
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
