Name
Archibald Warren
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
21682
Hampshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 88 to 90 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He had been born in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight and was a resident there.
He seems to have had several brothers. There was Septimus Warren also of the Hampshires who was single and had worked for Paternoster and Hales the printers of Hitchin and who was killed in action on the 16th April 1917. There was also Reuben Warren, single, aged 25 years, who had worked for the International Stores in Hitchin and who was a Lance Corporal in the Royal Fusiliers and killed in action on the l 6th June 1915. Then there was a brother George who was still living in September 1917. Archie's own connection with Hitchin has not been established.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Newport on the Isle of Wight and was Regimental Number 21682 in the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment which was part of the 88th Brigade of the 29th Division in XIV Corps of the 5th Army. He was killed in action when a shell burst near him while he was working a Lewis-gun.
His death occurred during the Battle of Langemarck in the Ypres Salient when the Brigade was dealing with strongpoints along the Langemarck to Weidendreft Road. The 88th Brigade attacked at 4.45am with the Newfoundland Regiment.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing on Panels 88-90.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
