Name
Harry Loveday
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/18844
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 106 to 108.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial,
All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood,
St Albans Town War Memorial,
Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Harry Loveday was born in the later part of 1886, in South Weston, Oxfordshire, the son of Reuben Loveday, a Gardener and Eliza Loveday (nee Witney). One of eleven children three died in infancy.
Baptised on 25 December 1886, in the Parish Church, South Weston, Oxon.
1891 Census records Harry aged 4, at school, living with his parents and six siblings in South Weston, Oxon.
1901 Census, Harry how aged 14, has left school and is working as a Plough Boy, living with his parents’ sister Florence (11) and brother Ernest (8) at "Private House", South Weston, Oxon.
1911 Census, records Harry as single and living with his sister Lizzie and her husband John Backhouse at, 19 Malden Road, Borehamwood, Herts, his occupation is given as an “Emulsion Mixer” at a Photographic Materials Manufacturer.
Harry married Florence Aylott, on 1 June 1914, in St Albans, Herts. They went on to have a daughter Dorothy Irene Loveday, born in 1915. His mother Eliza died in 1916.
At the time Harry enlisted the family were living at 38 Catherine Street, St Albans, Herts.
Florence Loveday, lived at Haydn Villa, Union Lane, St. Albans, Herts. (Address recorded after his death).
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted with the Middlesex Regiment at Pound Lane, Willesden Green, London/Middlesex on 18 September 1914, issued with the service number 2441, serving at home until October 1916, when he embarked at Folkstone on 2 October 1916, with the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment for Boulogne, France arriving there the same day.
Harry was transferred to the Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) on the 14 October 1916, with the service number G/18844. He was killed in action a year later on 12 October 1917.
Additional Information
Florence received a Widows Pension of 20/5 a week for herself and Dorothy from 13 May 1918, and his effects of £8-4s-9d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £13,
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Gareth Hughes
