Category Archives: Other Regiments

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.

Edward William Hunt & Sidney Richard Hunt

Army, Canadian, Commemorated name/s, Other Regiments, Somme, Y.M.C.A., Ypres

E.W.Hunt
Rifleman 2216
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regt.) also Queen’s Westminster Rifles 

Hunt EW photo

Edward William Hunt lived at 74, South Street, Reading. His father was a grocer and he had an elder brother and three sisters. Edward died of wounds on 14th March 1915.  He is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres.  Location IX. C. 41.   His grave is just a few yards away from that of Leslie Thomson who is also commemorated in the Reading Cemetery.

Rifleman Hunt was an old boy of Reading Collegiate School.  He was employed at Liberty’s, London as an apprentice draper but joined up at the outbreak of war and was sent to the front in November 1914.  The Standard 23rd March 1915, printed a letter from a friend which explained how Edward Hunt met his death.  He was employed in sniping operations on the morning of his death.  He had three more rounds to fire when he was shot.  He was buried the following day.

Sidney  Richard Hunt
Private 227059
54th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regt.)

 Sidney Richard Hunt was the elder brother of Edward William Hunt. The 1911 census indicates that he was seven years older than Edward.  Sidney was a grocers assistant, presumably in his fathers shop. It is not known when he went to Canada.

He died on 16th October 1918 and is buried in Sauchy-Cauchy Communal Cemetery Extension, Location B. I.  The village of Sauchy-Cauchy was captured by the 56th (London) Division on the 27th September 1918.  The Communal Cemetery Extension was made by the division in September and October, 1918.  After the Armistice graves were brought in from the German Extension and battle fields.  Exact details about the death of Sidney Richard Hunt are not known.

Note: The names of these two men were noted when the Berkshire Family History Society chronicled the monument inscriptions in the Reading Cemetery in the 1990’s.  When the author tried to find the names only the family headstone could be found.  The body of the grave has sunk and kerbs have been removed. The grave number is 12484; BFHS classification is 66A9