Name
Henry Walter Marchant
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265531
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 89 and 90.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin,
Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Stevenage memorials
Pre War
Son of Mr. H. W. Marchant, of 52, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, Herts.
He was born in Hitchin and at the beginning of the war was a railwayman whose home was in Hitchin.
Henry married in 1916 to Ellen Daisy Marchant, of New Council Cottages, Walkern Rd., Stevenage, Herts. her parents lived at Venables Yard, Walkern Road, Stevenage. At the time of his enlistment in Hertford Henry resided in Stevenage.
Wartime Service
He was also a member of the Territorial Force and was sent to France shortly after the beginning of the war, having been given the Regimental Number 2585 (265531 according to C.W.G.C. records) and posted to No. 4 Company of the 1st Battalion. He fought at Arras, Ypres, on the Somme and Cambrai. It was there that he was reported missing and was said to have been badly wounded and left in a trench later overrun by the enemy.
The Battalion took up positions north, east and south east of Villers Faucon in the Somme Sector to resist the thrust of the German offensive of the 21st March 1918. The Herts had moved forward to the retreating line of the 16th Division and were part of the 116th Brigade that was virtually destroyed that day.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 89-90 of the Pozieres Memorial to the Missing in France.
Additional Information
Also living at 52, Radcliffe Rd, Hitchin was his grandfather Charles Marchant who was trained in ordnance and had served in the Royal Navy on H.M.S. ‘Royal Albert’, in the Crimean War at Inkerman, Balaklava and Alma and during the Boxer Riots in China and
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
