Name
Reginald Percy Hoare
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/08/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
537409
London Regiment *1
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Plot III, Row F, Grave 44.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Richard Alfred and the late Annie (nee LANGLEY) HOARE.
His parents married 1891 in the Croydon, Surrey, district. Annie died 1915 in Watford aged 45, and was buried 12 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Richard remarried 27 July 1916 at St John’s, Ealing Dean, Middx, to Mary Ann Elizabeth DEERING. He died 5 April 1951 in Hatch End, Middx, aged 83; Mary died 1958 in the Harrow, Middx, district aged 76.
There is a Death announcement for Annie in the Observer dated 21 August 1915.
Reginald was born 20 October 1899 in Watford, and attended first Callow Land Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School from 9 January 1906 to 12 September 1913. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 1 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 11, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested 13 November 1917 in London for Short Service (Duration of the War): a bank clerk aged 18, 5’7″ tall, of Watford, and was posted to the 1st/9th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles).
He served at Home 13 November 1917 to 5 August 1918, when he embarked from Folkstone for France 6 August 1918. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received on 25 August 1918.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Reginald in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 14 September 1918.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
