HAYDEN John Edward

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Edward 
  • Surname:
    HAYDEN
  • Service Number:
    10677480
  • Rank:

    Driver

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Support Services
  • Corps:
    Royal Army Service Corps
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    8th June 1944
  • Age At Death:
    23
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Hermanville War Cemetery, France, Collective grave 1. K. 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of William Alfred and Rose Hayden; husband of Winifred Hayden, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire

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HAYDEN John Edward Is Named On These Memorials

Bewdley War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: Drv. R.A.S.C.

Further Information About HAYDEN John Edward

Appears on the Army casualties list for Worcestershire.

A letter from Reverend G.H. Sharpe, The Rectory, Bewdley dated 6th July 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Driver John Edward Hayden, R.A.S.C. be added to the county roll of honour.

The following information has been researched by John Barry:
1939 Register
2 Ingram Crescent, Bewdley
William A. Hayden, born 23rd December 1882, Corporation Labourer
Rose H.E. Hayden, born 21st February 1894, Household duties
John E. Hayden, born 9th October 1920, Coal hoist labourer Heavy Worker
Alfred R. Hayden, born 7th May 1925, Gardening

John Hayden was killed by an enemy air attack during the night of 7th-8th June. A letter written by Major J.R. Cuthbertson, RASC, to the wife of another victim of the same air attack describes what happened. The following is a short extract:
‘On the night of 7th/8th June there was a German Air Raid over the location and a bomb fell amongst where the men were – your husband was killed outright. The burial took place the following morning 8th June, in the military cemetery.’

It is very possible that Winifred Hayden received a similar letter relating to John’s death in the same air raid.

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