Name
Hubert Norman Manners Courteen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
16339
Royal Flying Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Hubert Courteen was one of three brothers that served during the Great War. Hubert served with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), whilst Arthur and Harry Courteen joined the 9th Battalion Queen Victoria’s Rifles. Their parents, Henry and Louisa Courteen had four sons and two daughters, and in 1891 lived at Bottesford near Grantham. By the time of the 1911 Census the family had moved to Trent House, Rectory Road, Rickmansworth, where Henry was employed as a Consulting Engineer. It is not known how the family was linked with Abbots Langley, however the three brothers were all listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour throughout the War. In the January 1919 Parish Magazine commentary the Vicar “welcomed home” Harry Courteen in January 1919, which indicated that at some point between 1911 and 1914 the family re-located to Abbots Langley.
Hubert Courteen was born in the summer of 1890 at Gelston in Lincolnshire. He was first listed in the Roll of Honour in February 1916, serving with the RFC. His Medal Roll indicated that he dis-embarked in France on 19th December 1915. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour recorded Hubert for the first time in February 1916, serving with the RFC. However, for some unknown reason he was not recorded in the Roll of Honour from January 1917 to the end of the War.
Hubert Courteen survived the War. His brothers both survived the War too. Harry served with the 9th Queen Victoria’s Rifles (QVR), and was taken prisoner on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. Arthur also served with the 9th QVR and may have been wounded twice in the course of the war, but survived and returned home in May 1919.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
