Name
Aaron William Fox
9 June 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/07/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29669
Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ESQUELBECQ MILITARY CEMETERY
III. D. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury,
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Pre War
Aaron William Fox was born in Much Hadham, Herts on 9 June 1899 to Aaron and Mary Ann Fox and baptised on 6 August 1899 at Much Hadham.
On the 1901 Census Aaron was living with his family of ten at the Pest House, Much Hadham and the family were still there on the 1911 Census when he was a schoolboy and his father was a horsekeeper.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served in the 10th Bn. Royal West Kent Regt, who returned to France from Italy in March 1918. He died of wounds during the German offensive in Flanders in 1918.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £4 19s 1d. She was also awarded a pension of 5 shillings a week from 4 February 1919.
His parents later lived at Patmore Heath, Albury, near Little Hadham, Herts.
On some records the service number is prefixed by the letter 'G'.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Pat Bird, Jonty Wild, Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum)
