Pugh, H J
HENRY JOHN PUGH
Remembered with honour Perth Cemetery (China Wall) Cemetery: Plot I, Row K, Grave 18.
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 2256 Royal Bucks Hussars. He appears to have no medals, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, Henry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Henry in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 12 October 1918.
Son of John and Harriet (nee WALLER) PUGH of Watford.
His parents married 5 February 1888 at St Paul’s, Clapham, London. John died 10 March 1933 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 14 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Harriet died 26 June 1933 in Watford aged 69, and was buried 28 June, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Henry was born 14 May 1892 in Watford, and baptised 23 November 1892 at St Mary’s, Watford. He attended first Sotheron Road Infants’ School, Watford; then Callowland Board School, Watford, from 9 January 1899 to 24 April 1906. He was employed as a clerk by the London and North Western Railway Company.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, an apprentice railway clerk aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Service number
165776Rank
PrivateUnit
101st Battalion (Bucks and Berks)Regiment
Place buried
Date of death
28/09/1918Age at death
26Place 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)
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Private Henry John Pugh was born in 1892, the son of Mr John Pugh (a Postman) and his wife Harriett Pugh (formerly Waller). They resided at No. 20 Bruce Grove, Watford in 1911.
Henry enlisted with the Bucks & Berks Bn., serving in the Machine Gun Corps. (Infantry) and died on 28th September, 1918 aged 26. Henry’s details can be found on the CWGC website where he is commemorated at the Perth Cemetery (China Wall) in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.