Name
Harold Leonard Paddon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/09/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1768
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREEN HILL CEMETERY
Special Memorial G. 3.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Born in Poundstock, Cornwall in 1889. Moved to Hertfordshire and in 1911 was living in Bramfield, Nr Hertford and working as a groom for a Mr Percy Garratt, when he moved to Stanstead Abbotts Harold moved with him and stayed on in service.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, a cavalry regiment, sent to Gallipoli via Egypt on 19/01/1915, where they became part of the 10th Mounted Division, but were used as dismounted infantry. On 07/08/1915 Allied attacks captured Green Hill and Chocolate Hill, two spurs of high ground from the Turks. A second attack on Scimitar Hill failed and the front line remained stationary. It was during this attack that Harold was killed.
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins, Jonty Wild
