Name
Herbert George Hayes
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/06/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/26415
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
XX1.E.6.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross, Not on the Barley Memorial
Pre War
Herbert George Hayes was born in Barley, Hertfordshire in 1896, son of John Hayes a, Factory General Labourer and Mary Jane Hayes (nee Dyer).
John Hayes and Mary Jane Dyer were married in Barley, Herts, on the 21st March 1885.
His mother Mary died just after his berth in 1896, aged 30.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 4, living with his widowed father, brothers Isaac (11) and Frank (7), at the home of his father’s brother, Lewis Hayes and his wife Emma at, 37 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
1911 Census Herbert aged 14, is at school, living with his father and brother Isaac (21), at 37 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number G/26415.
On completion of his training, he was sent to France and served on the Western Front. He was Killed in Action in Belgium on the 21st June 1917, aged 21. He is buried in the CWGC Hooge Crater Cemetery, in Belgium.
Additional Information
His effects of £9-16s-6d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £4-10s-00d went to his father John.
He is recorded as H C Hayes on the Cheshunt Town Memorial and H G Hayes on the Holy Trinity Church Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Adrian Pitts, Jonty Wild
