Name
Hamlet Bloxham
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/05/1919
46
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1313
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
Plot D, Row 4, Grave 636.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Inscription
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Evangelist Church Memorial, Watford,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of John Stanners and Rebecca (nee HAWES) BLOXHAM; husband of Emily Turvey (nee SMITH) BLOXHAM.
His parents married 1868 in the Amersham, Bucks, district. Rebecca died 1924 in the Sr Alban’s district aged 79, and was buried in Hatfield Road Cemetery, St Alban’s.
Hamlet was born 1873 in Chesham or Stewkley, Bucks, and married 1904 in the Watford district; they had seven children. He was buried 27 May. Emily never remarried, she died 1955 in Watford aged 72, and was buried 3 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
On the 1881 Census, a scholar aged 8 he lived in Chesham, with his widowed mother and one sibling. On the 1891 and 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, an iron trimmer aged 38, he lived in Watford, with his wife and four children.
Wartime Service
He was formerly Private 1313 Hertfordshire Regiment the possibly re-numbered to 265065, being transferred as 254477 Labour Corps.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 November 1914, and died at the War Hospital, St Alban’s, Herts.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Hamlet’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing; nor does he appear to have an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War dataset.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Jonty Wild
