Name
George Hoar
13 January 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265166
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Little Gaddesden Village Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Little Gaddesden, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour (2018 Revision), Little Gaddesden, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Nash Mills, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
George Hoar was born on 13 January 1892 in Hudnall, Little Gaddesden, the son of Edward and Sophia Hoar of Hudnall Farm and one of 10 children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Hudnall Farm where his father was the farmer. They remained there in 1911 and George was then working on the farm with his father and two of his brothers.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Ashridge and served in the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 31st July 1917 near St Julien, the first day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. A day on which the Hertfordshire Regiment 's 620 men and officers were almost wiped out in the first two hours of fighting whilst attacking near the village of St Julien. All the regiment's officers and 75 percent of the other ranks were killed, wounded or captured.
He has no known grave
and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His first cousin Lance Serjeant Arthur Whitman, Herts Regt died the same day. His father received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £18 10s 4d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk, hemelatwar.org., littlegaddesdenchurch.org.uk
