Name
James William Tharby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/03/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201403
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
D. 34.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Bayford & Brickendon Memorial, Bayford,
Wareside Village Memorial,
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Wareside
Pre War
Born in 1888 in Bayford, Herts. son of Thomas and Emily Ann (Mead) Tharby of 2 Elm Cottages, Wareside, Herts. and christened in Wareside, Herts. on 15 Apr 1888. He was living in School House Green, Wareside in 1891 and 1901 He married Caroline Janet (Player) Tharby, of Bayford, Hertford in Jun 1912 and had two children. He worked as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford. In Mar 1917 the battalion was involved in the defence of the Suez Canal from attack by Turkish forces.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
