Name
Arthur Hart
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
52
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Not on the Walkern memorials
Pre War
Born in 1863 in Walkern, Hertfordshire son of Benjamin and Hannah (Draper) Hart. He married Elizabeth Frances Waldock on 18 Mar 1889 in Southwark, London and they lived in Wellington, Bengeo in 1891 and in 66 Port Vale, Hertford in 1901. He was a miller and had nine children.
Wartime Service
Killed by a Zeppelin raid. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
