Name
Cuthbert Walter Harris
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
266030
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 89 and 90.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Cuthbert Walter Harris was born in 1896 to Frederick and Harriet Harris.
Unable to locate the family on census returns or find any record of Cuthbert's birth.
His recorded as living in Hertford when he enlisted there.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford and served in the 1st Battalion of the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Regiments under the same regimental no. of 266030.
Additional Information
His father Frederick received a war gratuity of £18 10s and pay owing of £10 11s 2d. His mother Harriet received a pension of 3/5 a week from 6.11.18 and was then living at 12 New Town Road, Bishops Stortford. His father requested a transfer of that pension in 1924 which was refused.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
