Name
James Parker Hayhoe
8 Jul 1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/03/1918
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12/3888
Auckland Regiment, NZEF
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
IV.B.5
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Welwyn Village Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Roll of Honour, Welwyn, Stanton - WW1 (WMR 5267) Stanton Suffolk Stanton Cross - WW1 And WW2 Stanton, Suffolk
Pre War
James Parker Hayhoe was born in Stanton, Suffolk in 1878, the son of James Ebenezer Hayhoe, a schoolmaster, and his wife Matilda Mary (nee Stevens).
His mother died in 1883 and his father in 1884.
He was working as a Grocer's Assistant in Suffolk, but on the 1911 Census he was living in Welwyn, and again working as a Grocer's Assistant and lodging with Annie Williams in Mill Lane.
In October 1912 he emigrated to New Zealand, where he and his younger brother Alexander worked as a Dairymen. They left on 11 October on board the Orient Lines ship SS Osterley, bound initially for Australia.
Wartime Service
James Parker joined the Auckland Infantry Regiment in Oct 1915 and on 8 January 1916 in Wellington embarked aboard the SS Maunganui as part of the 9th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, bound for Europe by way of Suez where they arrived a month later.
He was wounded in Jun 1917 but after treatment in UK for a gunshot wound to his right arm he re-joined his battalion in France on 11 Nov 1917. James was killed in action on 30 March 1918 during the Battle of Arras and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France.
He is also remembered on local memorials in New Zealand.
Additional Information
His brother Alexander also served in the Auckland Infantry Regiment at Gallipoli in 1915 and France in 1916 but was discharged for Medical Reasons (Deafness) and was returned to New Zealand in April 1917.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Paul Jiggens, Welwyn and District History Society - www.welwynww1.co.uk, Brenda Palmer
