Name
Harry Payne
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
267045
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Citizens of St Albans Memorial, St Albans, We are not aware of any Colemans Green memorial
Pre War
Son of George and Caroline Payne, of Sandridge and later Coleman Green, Wheathampstead, Herts.
In 1891, before Harry's birth, the family were living in the High Street, Streatley, Beds. Present were both parents: George (30) and Caroline (25), with George working as an agricultural labourer and Caroline as a straw hat and bonnet sewer. Their children were: Alice (4), Lily (2) and William at just two months old.
We have yet to find the family in 1901, but by 1911 they were living at Upper Beech Hyde, Sandridge Nr St Albans. Present were both parents, George now working as a shepherd. The census recorded they had been married for 25 years with 9 children, of whom 2 had died. The children present were William, now 20 and also a shepherd, Harry, 16 and a farm labourer, Mary (14), George (12) and Joseph (10).
Wartime Service
Initially enlisted as Private 6119, Bedfordshire Regiment. Then transferred to Hertfordshire Regiment
Additional Information
Back Pay and gratuities of £9 11s 4d paid to father Brother, William Payne also served and died He is also listed an a memorial called Citizens of St Albans,
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
Jonty Wild, Ian Kelly
