Name
Harry George Martin
1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203904
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
1st Bn. attd. 2nd/3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 148 to 150.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Harry George MARTIN was born in Hampstead, London/Middlesex, in the early part of 1883, son of William Martin a Mansion Porter and Susan Martin (nee Phillips). The youngest of eight children.
1891 Census records Harry aged 8 at School, living with his parents, and four brothers, Charles (22), William (15), Robert (12) and Joseph (10) at Block 2, Back Lane, Hampstead, Lon/Middx.
His father William passed away before 1901.
1901 Census records Harry aged 18, as single and a Domestic Page, for Mrs Annie Woodall and family at 69 Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, Lon/Middx, the family also had three Housemaids and a Cook. His widowed mother, and three brother, William, Robert and Joseph, are living at, The Flats, 6 Back Lane, Hampstead, Lon/Middx.
Harry Married Alice Maud Warren of Much Hadham, Herts, the daughter of Natham and Fanny Warren, on 29th October 1910, at the Church of St John the Baptist, Harlow, Essex. They went on to have two children Harry Charles Martin born 1911 and Alice Maud Martin born 1914.
1911 census records Harry (28) as married to Alice (21) they have a new born son, Harry Charles Martin, they are living at Flat 3, 6 Back Lane, Hampstead, Lon/Middx. His widowed mother Susan Martin is living with them, and they have a boarder, Fanny Taylor.
His mother Susan passed away in 1914, aged 73.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted in Hampstead, posted to the 1st (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) with the service number formerly 8211, later 203904, he was attached to the 2/3rd Battalion. (His service number 8211 would indicate he enlisted Aug/Sept 1916). Seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 26th October 1917, aged 34, at the Battle of Passchendaele, (Battle of Passchendaele 31st July – 6th November 1917).
He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium. Panel 148 – 150.
Additional Information
Alice received a grant of £5, and a widow’s pension of 25/5, (£1-05s-05d) a week from 24th June 1918, and his effects of £3-06s-07d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £4.
Alice remarried on 5th June 1920, to Samuel George Edwards, in Waltham Cross, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
