Harding, H
HORACE HARDING
Remembered with honour Arras Memorial: Bay 5.
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 26 July 1915, and was presumed killed or died of wounds received in action during the Battle of Arras, an unsuccessful attack on Cherisy. Unfortunately, Horace’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Elizabeth TAYLOR (formerly HARDING, nee HARRIS) and the late Walter HARDING.
His parents married 10 January 1883 at St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Walter possibly died 1890 in the Bedminster, Somerset, district aged 33. Elizabeth remarried 20 November 1897 at St Paul’s, Hemel Hempstead to Henry TAYLOR, and died 1943 in the Hemel Hempstead district aged 80.
Horace was born 1886 in Hemel Hempstead, and baptised 8 October 1886 at St Mary’s, Hemel Hempstead. He resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Hemel Hempstead, with his HARRIS grandmother. On the 1901 Census, a mineral water van boy aged 15, he lived in Watford, with his mother and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, he is proving elusive.
Service number
19203Rank
PrivateUnit
7th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
on or since 03/05/1917Age at death
30Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 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)