Hannard, A B or U A
ALBERT BERT or ULYSSES ALBERT HANNARD
Remembered with honour La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
He enlisted in Hounslow, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 13 August 1914, and died at Vailly of wounds received in action. Unfortunately, Albert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Ulysse/Ulysie/Ulysses and Kate Constance (nee KOETTLITZ) HANNARD.
His parents married 1896 in the St Pancras, London, district. Kate died 1931 in the St Pancras district aged 57.
Albert was born 18 January 1896 in St Pancras, and baptised 15 March 1896 at St Pancras Parish Church. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in St Pancras, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a ironmonger’s errand boy aged 15, he lived in Regent’s Park, London, with his mother [separated from his father] and four siblings.
Service number
L/16091Rank
PrivateUnit
4th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
20/09/1914Age at death
18Place of death
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)