HUNT Harold Henry

Harold Hunt was born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1891, the son of William Henry and Louisa Hunt (nee Smithies) who had married in 1885 in Yorkshire.  On the 1891 census for East Retford Harold is just two months old and has two older sisters, one of whom was born in America.  The family moved from Nottinghamshire to Worcester sometime prior to 1897 as the death of William Henry Hunt is registered in Worcester in the June quarter 1897.  On the 1901 census Louisa is a widow living in Green Lane in the parish of St Barnabas with Harold and his older sister Lilian.  Harold attended St Barnabas Boys School where he won a prize for regular and punctual attendance in December 1900 and a further prize in December 1901 for only being absent due to sickness.  Harold was a pre-war soldier, on the 1911 census he was a private in the 1st Battalion Welch Regiment in the main barracks, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt.  As a reservist he would have been called up immediately after the outbreak of the war.  He was soon posted overseas, arriving in France with the Welsh Regiment on 27th January 1915.  Harold’s medal index card records him as being killed in action on 4th November 1915, the Soldiers Died in the Great War index states he died of wounds on the same date.