Name
William James Hart
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
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UK & Other Memorials
Biography
William Hart was born in the winter of 1883 at Berkhamsted. He was one of nine children (two sons and seven daughters) born to Thomas and Mary Hart. By the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at Hunton Bridge, where Thomas worked as a Cowman. In the 1901 Census the family was recorded at Langleybury, Hunton Bridge. Thomas was employed as a Foreman on a Farm, whilst William worked as a Gardener Domestic.
On 16th October 1909 William married Annie Topping at Hayes in Middlesex. At that time William worked as a Gardener and was living at Hadleigh, Essex. In the 1911 Census William, Annie and six month old daughter Doris were recorded living at the Gardener’s Cottage at Stanway Hall, Colchester.
William was not listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour. However he did appear in the Roll of Honour for Langleybury, reflecting his connections with the village from his early life, and probably due to his family still residing at Hunton Bridge.
At the end of the War William was recorded in the National Roll of the Great War, living at 19 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley, and this reference qualified him for inclusion in the village records for the Great War. He joined up in June 1916 with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and later in the same year proceeded to Ireland where he served for a time. In 1917 he was drafted to France, and was stationed in Paris until August 1919, when he returned to England and was demobilised.
William Hart, who was also commemorated in the Langleybury/Hunton Bridge records survived the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
