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John S. Hymes

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J. S. Hymes
Service no. 394311
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles), 1st/9th Battalion
Enlisted in London; lived in Brixton
Died of wounds on 29 May 1917
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, France

In 1911 John Simpson Hymes, 29, lived at 16 Westgate Road, Dartford. He was a sales manager, born in Liverpool. His wife, Ruby Clara Hymes, 24, was born in Lambeth, and their son, John Edward Hymes, 10 months, was born in Clapham; two further children followed. The couple married at St Mark’s, Kennington in 1908.

Hymes’s widow married James F. Moore in 1919.

Albert Young Hutchinson

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A. Y. Hutchinson
Service no. 16206
Private, 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
Born at Haggerston, London; enlisted at Lambeth; lived at Dalston
Killed in action at age 39 on 24 October 1914
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson, who was born in Haggerston, east London in 1875, was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. The Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects states that he enlisted on 28 August 1914 and died at Zillebeke.

Albert’s father John W. Hutchinson was a cabinet maker born in Surrey, his mother Mary Ann Young, who died in January 1911, was from Pentonville, north London. Albert had twelve siblings.

In 1911 Albert Young Hutchinson was living in one room at 24 Tasman Road, Stockwell. He was 36, single, and working as a goods receiving clerk. He was born at Haggerston, east London.

Joseph Wellman Hussey

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J. W. Hussey
Service no. 4288
Serjeant, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, “B” Sqdn.
Born at Chard, Somerset; enlisted in Sevenoaks, Kent; lived in West Ewell, Surrey
Died at about age 37 on 24 May 1915
CWGC: “Cross of St. George (Russian). Son of Ann Hussey, of Winsham, nr. Chard, Somerset. Served in South African Campaign.”
Remembered at Hop Store Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium; also at Waterloo Station and Canterbury Cathedral

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Joseph Wellman Hussey, 33, was living alone in one room at 78 Wilcox Road, South Lambeth. He was working as a railway porter. He stated that he was born in Thorncombe, Dorset. In 1912 he married 22-year-old Elsie Ann Cameron, who lived at 88 Wilcox Road.

Hussey is mentioned in John Buchan’s book Francis and Riversdale Grenfell: A Memoir (Francis Grenfell was his commanding officer).

Harry George Walter Hurt

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H. G. W. Hurt
Service no. 15120
Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, 7th Battalion
Born in St Pancras; enlisted in Westminster; lived in South Lambeth
CWGC: “Son of Frederick George and Martha Hurt, of II Guildford Road, South Lambeth Road, London.”
Died aged 24 on 25 October 1916
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 the Hurt family lived at 22 Langley Lane, Kennington. Frederick G. Hurt, 58, was a whitesmith (he worked with the “white” or light-coloured metals such as tin and pewter), born in St Pancras. Martha Hurt, 56, was from Poplar, east London. They had had 7 children, with 6 surviving, including:
Alice M. Hurt, 23, a typist
Frederick J. Hurt, 21, a postman
Harry G. Hurt, 18, a clerk
Martha L. Browne, 38, a widow
Martha’s children Charles Browne, 10, and Elsie Browne, 5, lived with the family. All were born in St Pancras.