Name
Albert (Bert) Cecil Hyder
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/02/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
333
Royal Fusiliers *1
7th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VI. A. 30
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ashwell Village Memorial, St Mary’s Church ROH, Ashwell
Pre War
Albert, known as Bert, was born and baptised in Ashwell the third son of Thomas Silver & Clarissa Hyder of Kingsland Hill, Ashwell. In 1891 and 1901 census he was living in Lime Kiln Hill, Ashwell.
He married Ida Emma Hornby in Horsham area in 1915. He had been in 1st Herts Volunteers (Service number 2381) for 4 years before he signed up with the City of London Rifles on the 3rd of September 1914.
Wartime Service
As a married man he had been living in Canada for some time where he worked as painter and decorator and at the outbreak of the war had joined the Canadian army. After the completion of his training he was posted to France and was later attached to Royal Fusiliers, with whom his brother, Tom, was serving.
Albert was wounded in action and died later at a Casualty Clearing Station, the day after his promotion to the rank of sergeant.
Additional Information
Husband of Ida Emma Pennington (formerly Hyder), of 22, Smollett St., Kensington, Liverpool. Mr and Mrs Hyder had previously lost another son in the war and at the time of Albert's death a third son, Private Eric Hyder, was in training in Tring.
*1 Probably more
correctly (City of London) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
