In Memoriam
The Menin Gate
Memorial
where Frederick G Hartwright
is remembered
From
the poem “A Scrap of Paper” by Rev G A Studdert Kennedy
(Woodbine Willie)
Just a little scrap of paper
In a yellow envelope
And the whole world in ruin
Even hope
Most of the following information has been based on records listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website www.cwgc.org You may also wish to look at www.cwgc.co.uk
Harold Ivor V. Hartwright - Rifleman 391903 9th Bn. London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles). He died on Thursday 27th September 1917 and is remembered in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave ref X11. C. 15.
Harold Ivor’s parents were Frederick William and the late Kezia Hartwright nee Slingo. Frederick with his second wife Kit and the daughters of his first marriage, Ivy and Grace, emigrated from Fernhurst, Sussex England to Salisbury, Queensland, Australia in about 1914. See also Hartwright Military Records and The Hartwrights pages 9 and 10
Valentine R. Hartwright - DFM. Flying Officer 44570 7 Sqdn. RAF. Died on Monday 30th June 1941 aged 26. He is remembered in Becklingen War Cemetery Germany. Grave – Coll grave 13.F 11-14.
Educated at Varndean College, Brighton, Sussex, England, Valentine was the only son of the above-named Harold Hartwright and Adam Blakeley (late Hartwright, nee Dobson. Ada became Mrs Blakeley after Harold’s death).
Frederick G. Hartwright. - Pte. 7574 1st Bn. Scots Guards who was reported missing on 11th November 1914 aged 20. His memorial is at Ieper (Ypres), Belgium on the Menin Gate. Panel number 11.
Frederick was born in North Ambersham, Fernhurst Sussex on 22 September 1894, the fourth son of Frederick William and Kezia Hartwright. Educated at The Schools, Fernhurst, Haslemere, Surrey he enlisted in 1910 aged 15 years 4 months and served both in the UK and Egypt before leaving for France on 13th August 1913. (In the 1920’s his father who lived in Australia was sent Frederick’s British War Medal and Victory Medal and the clasp to the 1914 star.) See also The Hartwrights pages 9 and 10.
Percy Hartwright Pte. 53460 18th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regt) who died Friday 15th September 1916 aged 24. He is remembered at Pozieres British Cemetery, Somme, France. Grave ref IV. R. 50. and on the Woodstock War Memorial, Ontario, Canada. He was the sixth (?) son of Charles Hartwright from Birmingham Warwickshire, England and his first wife Harriet. Percy and his sister Mrs Louise Hadden and her husband Thomas had emigrated to Canada. See also The Hartwrights page 10.
From
“Patience” by Rev G A Studdert Kennedy (Woodbine Willie)
…So grant us Lord, the patient heart
To climb the upward way
Until we stand upon the high
And see the perfect day.
