Name
David Ives
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/09/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
331037
Lancashire Fusiliers
10th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
III. B. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church Memorial, High Cross,
Thundridge Village Memorial,
Not on the Collier’s End memorial,
Not on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in Colliers End, Herts on 13th May 1881 the only son of David and Mary Ives. He had four sisters. His occupation is given as a brick maker. Address - Colliers End, Nr Ware, Herts.
In 1891 they were living at Colliers End where his father is a gamekeeper. In 1901 David was recorded as a labourer.
On 24th August 1910 he married Lily Smith who came from Wiltshire, and in 1911, they were living in Colliers End and David was working as a brickmaker. No children were recorded in the 1911 census, but it looks as if they had a daughter Kathleen later in 1911 and Dorothy in 1913.
He enlisted in Hertford in December 1914 in the Hertfordshire Regiment.
Wartime Service
Formerly with the Hertfordshire Regiment Service No’s 4211 and then possibly 266240. At an unknown date David transferred to 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (Service No. 331037).
On 31st July 1916 he was admitted to G.2.Ward, 8. General Hospital, BEF, with gunshot wound and fracture of right arm. Sometime in 1917 he suffered leg injuries and later sent to VAD Hospital at Ware Priory for convalescence.
He was killed in action on 1st September 1918, aged 37. Initially buried in mass grave near the sugar factory at Le Transloy and later reburied in Bancourt British Cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird, Jonty Wild
