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24 July 1917 : Pte Albert Hart

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Albert Hart was born in 1882 in Studham, Hertfordshire, the son of Charles (an agricultural labourer) and Anne (a straw platter). At the 1911 Census Albert, age 28, a married brick-layer's assistant, was living at Byslips Cottages, Byslips Road, Studham with his wife Jane (13 years his senior) her sons Raymond and George, and their own 4 year ol...


22 January 1917: 2nd Lieut Charles Percival Mattey

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His parents were George Mattey (farmer) and Elizabeth Mattey (née Marden).   Aged 2 at the 1891 Census, Charles, the 6th of six children, was living with his family, a governess and general domestic servant at Moor Farmhouse. Ten years later, age 12, in 1901, his father having died, George’s mother was running a boarding house. There were three...