Name
James Henry Moss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/11/1915
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
3718
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
IV. G. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Stevenage Old Town Memorial, St Nicholas' Church Memorial, Stevenage Old Town, Holy Trinity Church Memorial Roll of Honour, Stevenage Old Town, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
James was the son of James & Martha who, at the time of his birth, live at Aston End, near Stevenage.
He married Susan Fanny Moss Taplin in 1904 and they were the first couple to be married at the Bunyan church in the High Street. They later lived at 8 Venables Yard, Church Path, Stevenage, with their three children, James, Violet & Daisy.
Wartime Service
He was posted to France on the 16th February 1915.
The Hertfords were in the vicinity of Bethune and spent the time in the front line, on reliefs and in billets, with shelling, sniping, snow, mud and rain creating a steady toll of casualties.
On the 29th November 1915, James returned from a long march with his company to their billets in an orphanage in Bethune, and he soon fell asleep. Sadly, he did not wake up and it is believed he died as a result of heart failure.
James is buried in the Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His brother Reginald was killed on the Somme nearly a year later.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson
