Shuts/Shutts, R H
REUBEN/RUBEN/RUBBEN/RUEBEN HOPE HERMANN/HERMON SHUTS
Remembered with honour Thiepval Memorial: Pier and Face 8C, 9A and 16A.
He enlisted in Ealing, Middx, was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 29 December 1915, and was killed in action. Unfortunately, Reuben’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Rudolph and Kate (nee BRANSON or WATTLER) SCHULTZ.
His parents married 1892 in the Bethnal Green, London, district. Rudolph died 21 July 1921 in Hillingdon, Middx, aged 77. Kate remarried 1922 in the Hammersmith, London, district to Alfred H SEARLE, and possibly died 1943 in the Liverpool, Lancs, district aged 77.
Reuben was born 25 March 1897 in Kensington, London, and baptised 25 May 1897 at St Mark’s, Notting Hill, London. He resided in Southall, Middx.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Kensington, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, aged 15 he lived in Southall, with his parents and four siblings.
Service number
GS/17529Rank
PrivateUnit
8th (Service) BattalionRegiment
Date of death
07/07/1916Age at death
19Place of death
Memorial(s)
Notes
aka SCHUTZ/SCHULTZ- 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)