Name
William West Hardwick
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/06/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
5th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
V. A. 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
TO DWELL WITH CHRIST IS BETTER LIFE
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
William West Hardwick was born in 1891 in Portsea, Hampshire to Thomas and Hannah Hardwick. The family were living at Washington Road, Portsea on the 1891 Census when William was 3 months old.
On the 1911 Census he was a boarder living with George and Sarah Yates in Bournemouth and working as a shop assistant at a gentleman's outfitters.
Wartime Service
William West Hardwick enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant and served in France from 20 March 1915.
Additional Information
£5 war gratuity was awarded to his mother Hannah and pay owing of £26 11s awarded to his father Thomas.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
