Name
Bert Hayward
20/03/1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
83762
Royal Field Artillery
32nd Div. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY
IV. F. 12.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
SLEEP ON MY SON AND TAKE THY REST UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Cross Church Memorial, Sarratt, Sarratt Village Memorial, Chipperfield Village Memorial, St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield.
Pre War
Bert Hayward was born on 20 March 1896, in Erlestoke, Wiltshire, son of James Hayward, a Game Keeper and Ellen (nee Ferris) Hayward. One of eight children, one died in infancy. He was Baptised on 24 May 1896 in the Parish Church, Erlestoke, Wiltshire.
1901 Census records Bert, aged 5, living with his parents, and four siblings at, (Big Wood) Micklefield Green, Herts.
SDITGW records him as born in Watford and enlisted in Portsmouth, however cesus suggest that he was born in Erlestoke, Wiltshire.
1911 Census records Bert, aged 21.
Bert and his elder brother Alick are recorded as Under Gamekeepers and their
father as a Gamekeeper, living at, Greatwood Cottages, Chandlers Cross, Croxley
Green, Herts. With his parents, brothers, Alick, and Harry, sisters Violet and
Edith. (We believe this should be Greatwood Cottages, Sarratt, Herts).
Wartime Service
Bert enlisted at Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 18 August 1914, aged 19, he gave his occupation as a Gamekeeper. He was posted to the Royal Field Artillery, with the service number 83762.
His medal card records that he arrived in France on 22 May 1915.
He was died on 9 October 1917. He is buried in the CWGC Coxyde Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Additional Information
His service record and SDITGW record his place of birth as Watford, Herts. His mother Ellen Hayward received a dependents pension of 5/- a week. His effects of £27-00s-5d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £14, went to his father James Hayward. He is recorded as B. Haywood on the Sarratt Village Memorial. His service record also records his father as James Haywood.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
