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Herbert Hussey

Army, Commemorated name/s, Other Regiments, Reading University College

Herbert Hussey
Private 39772
1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry

 Division 21

Hussey H photo  CIMG2191

Herbert Hussey was the son of Mrs H. Hussey of 32, Northumberland Avenue, Reading.  He is commemorated on the headstone of the grave of his mothers and sisters, number 16635.  Berkshire History Society classification 21G1.

We are told on the caption to his photograph that he died in Aden on his way home from India.  Notification of his death was published in the Reading Standard April 5th 1919.  Herbert Hussey had served for 3 years 4 months in the Army.  Prior to the outbreak of war he had spent several years in France and Germany.  He joined up as a volunteer a year after the outbreak of war and belonged to the 1st Garrison Somerset Battalion attached to the Hampshire Regiment.  He was sent to France but invalided home in July 1917.  He recovered and was sent to India in December 1918 with the Somerset Light Infantry.  He started his return home on 24th February 1919 but died on the17th March 1919.  He is buried in Maala Cemetery, Yemen.  Location G. 6.

By profession Herbert Hussey was a schoolmaster.  He had trained at Culham College and taught at for some time at Grovelands school.  He was the Assistant organist at All Saint’s Church and organist and choirmaster at St. Georges Church.  He was a member of the Choral Society of University College Reading and a well-known concert performer.

Charles Frederick Hunt

Army, Commemorated name/s, Other Regiments, St. Batholomew's Church

Charles Frederick Hunt
Staff Sergeant 158072 155th Heavy Battery
Royal Garrison Artillery

Division 82
Extension

Hunt CF photo Hunt CF Rcem com2

 

Charles Frederick Hunt  was the son of James and Amy Hunt, of Reading.  He is commemorated on his parents grave, number 17522.

Charles Hunt died of wounds in Genoa Hospital, on  21ST June 1918 aged 38.  He is buried in Staglieno Cemetery Genoa, location I.B.15.

The Reading Standard 6 July 1918 published an obituary.:

“Charles Hunt had been educated at Newtown Board School.  After he was apprenticed as a fitter at to Messers. Adams. De Beauvoir Road. For the last ten years he was working for Messers. Wellman Bros. Windsor. He used to sing in St. Bartholomews Church choir and was one of the earliest members of the St. Paneras Guild taking an active part in the annual ameateur theatricals and cricket. Staff Serjeant Hunt left England for France in June 1917  and in the following November proceded to Italy. For some weeks he had been Acting  Quartermaster and expected to obtain leave within a few days. He leaves a widow and one daughter.”

Charles Hunt

Other Regiments, Registered War Grave

Charles Hunt
Lance Corporal 90709
35th Batt. Northumberland Fusiliers

Division 7

Charles Hunt, was the husband  of Alice Hunt, of 184, Kensington Road, Reading.   He died on 7th July 1919 aged 44 years.

The circumstances of his death are not known. No other information is available.

The grave number is 7.6666 and is marked with a CWGC war pattern headstone.