No.5825404, Private, John William HARDY
Aged 39
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John William Hardy was born in 1905 (Newmarket Q3-1905 3B:490), son of Charles and Alethea HARDY (née PALMBY).
Another man who changed his age, since the CWGC have him as 39 at death and his birth registration actually makes him 35 ! 1911 census...Aged 5 he was at Backway, Burwell with his father Charles HARDY [30] labourer born Glemsford, Suffolk; his mother 26, born Wicken and sister Alice Dorothy [6] no place of birth given. His mother died in 1912. Sister Alice married Ernest HEFFER and was at 32 Council Houses, Heath Road, Burwell in the 1939 register. His father, Charles, was killed in France in 1918 serving in the Bedfordshire Regiment. see here |
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8 of the 25 men of the 1st Suffolk to die that day are buried in Zuidschote, not far NNW from Ypres, presumably a rear guard action as the BEF retreated to Dunkirk.
photo; Rodney Gibson he is attributed to Swaffham Bulbeck on the Roll in Ely Cathedral click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
