The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G W Hardy

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private George William HARDY, 205641, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 19th October 1917, age 33.

Born Slingsby, Yorkshire, son of Henry Hardy.

19th December 1910, St Edmund with Whitley, All Saints, Kellington, Yorkshire, George William Hardy, age 25, bachelor, miller, Eggborough, father Henry Hardy of Slingsby, drainer, married Mary Elizabeth Coward, age 29, spinster, Teasal? Hall?, father Robert Coward, miller.

According to Service Records - 19th December 1910, Kellington Parish Church, married Mary Elizabeth Cowell, spinster of 142 Briarland, ???? Yorkshire.

Child - Arthur Leopold Hardy, born 5th November 1915, Peckfield, Yorkshire.

1911 Census - Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire - Robert Coward, head, age 68, married, labourer, flour mill, worker, born Beaghall, Yorkshire; Ann Mira Coward, wife, age 57, married 33 years, 7 children, all still alive, housekeeper, at home, born Beaghall, Yorkshire; Thomas Herbert Coward, son, age 28, single, labourer, flour mill, worker, born Beaghall, Yorkshire; Robert Garald Coward, son, age 24, single, signalman on Railway, L & Yorkshire, born Beaghall, Yorkshire; Mabel Evelin Coward, daughter, age 19, single, born Beaghall, Yorkshire; George William Hardy, son in law, age 25, married, under one, labourer, chemical manure? works, born Stockton, Yorkshire; Mary Elizabeth Hardy, daughter, age 31, married, born Beaghall, Yorkshire.

Enlisted Selby, Yorkshire, age 28 years & 9 months, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 160lbs. Resided 142 Ringland, Manfield, Yorkshire / 6, Croysdale Terrace, Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire. Formerly farm labourer.

Home 11th December 1915 to 5th July 1917; BEF 6th July 1917 to 19th October 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 22nd March 1917, mobilized; 22nd March 1917, posted 4th Battalion, Yorks & Lancs Regiment, Service No.204634; 5th July 1917, posted BEF; 6th July 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 7th July 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 7th July 1917, Etaples, 34th Infantry Base Depot; 21st July 1917, Etaples, 34th Infantry Base Depot, transferred to 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

13th May 1918, pension of 20/5 a week awarded to widow & one child.

21st November 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Mary Elizabeth Hardy, 6, Croysdale Terrace, Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire; Child - Arthur Leopold Hardy, 6, Croysdale Terrace, Whitley Bridge, Yorkshire; Father of the soldier, George William Hardy, killed in action; Mother, Mary Hardy.

Buried at Minty Farm Cemetery, I. B. 7., Belgium.

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