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The Commemoration on the Saffron Walden Friends' School War Memorial
(Photo : Sonia Hood, Head Teacher's PA, Saffron Walden Friends School)
The Name of Howard H Hart on the Saffron Walden Friends' School War Memorial
(Photo : Sonia Hood, Head Teacher's PA, Saffron Walden Friends School)
Saffron Walden Friends’ School is a co-educational Quaker day school on the edge of Saffron Walden in Essex.
The school War Memorial is situated in the school's library. One of the names is that of an Officer who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.
We are extremely grateful to Saffron Walden Friends' School who provided us with photographs of the memorial.
Lieutenant Howard Victor Hart, MC. 6th Battalion the
Yorkshire Regiment, formerly 6th Bn. London Regiment (City of London Rifles).
Killed 23 March 1919. Aged 29.
Commemorated ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL. Buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cemetery.
Richard Roberts (<richard.nsw@googlemail.com>) provided the following
additional information on Lieutenant Hart;-
Howard Victor Hart was born at Marylebone, London in 1889 the son of Herbert
W & Ellen L Hart.
He enlisted as Pte 33845 in the Essex Regiment and was commissioned as a Lieutenant
in the 6th Battalion London Regiment (City of London Rifles) on 16 May 1917
before being posted to France four months later.
He was awarded the MC.
He resided at 19 Sutton Road, Muswell Hill, Middlesex.
In the 1911Census, he is recorded as a pupil at The Friends' School, Saffron
Walden.
From the official history of the Yorkshire Regiment in the First World War,
Lieutenant Hart is shown as joining the Yorkshire Regiment in the North Russia
Expeditionary Force in October 1918. He was killed, along with one other officer,
in an attack on the town of Bolshiozerki.
Saffron
Walden Friends' School
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