Name
Hedley Victor Garratt
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/03/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
137
Guards Machine Gun Regiment
4th Bn. (Foot Guards)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LEVEL CROSSING CEMETERY, FAMPOUX
II.B.9
France
Headstone Inscription
TIME CANNOT HEAL SO GREAT A WOUND
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Welwyn Village memorials
Pre War
Hedley Victor Garratt was born in 1894 in Welwyn, the son of Joseph Garratt and Susan (nee Pearman). He was one of six children but one had died by 1911.
By the 1901 Census the family had moved to 51 Terriano Avenue, Camden Town, St Pancras, Middlesex where his father was working as a hay dealer.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 37 St Augustine's Road, Camden and he was working as a Law Clerk.
His father later lived at 67 Hungerford Road, Holloway, London.
Wartime Service
Hedley enlisted at St Pancras, Middlesex and initially served as Guardsman 24081 in the Grenadier Guards, later transferring to the Guards Machine Gun Company on its formation.
He was killed in action on 16 March 1918 on the Somme battlefields and is buried in Level Cross Cemetery, Lampoux, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £13 and pay owing of £6 4s 10d. His mother received a pension of six shillings a week.
Mr I Garratt, 37, St. Augustine Road, Camden Square, St. Pancras, NW1 ordered his headstone inscription: "TIME CANNOT HEAL SO GREAT A WOUND",
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
