HAMMOND Claude Douglas

  • First Name(s):
    Claude 
    Douglas 
  • Surname:
    HAMMOND
  • Service Number:
    9026
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Cavalry
  • Regiment:
    4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    24th May 1915
  • Age At Death:
    19
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, Panel 3 to 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Mary Edith Hammond, of Northend, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and the late Arthur Warren Hammond

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HAMMOND Claude Douglas Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge War Memorial
Wollaston St James’s Church

Further Information About HAMMOND Claude Douglas

Claude Hammond was born in Cardiff, but his father, a mechanical engineer, had been born and bred in Wollaston. In 1914 his family was living at Leamington Spa. He enlisted in the 4th Dragoon Guards in the 1st Cavalry Division and went to the front line in December 1914. They were very actively involved in the Second Battle of Ypres from April to June 1915. As the German threat to Ypres developed along the Menin Road, a counter attack was ordered on the Bellewaerde Ridge for the 24th May. The German attack was halted, but at great cost. One of those killed in action was Private Claude Hammond.

Claude Hammond has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.

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Credits: Transcribed and researched by The Black Country Society.