marine pete Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 Thomas French Hatfield Sgt 16008 6th battalion Yorkshire Regiment KIA 30/9/1916 age 24 not able to find his enrolment date can anyone help. Regards Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 (edited) War Gratuity suggests c Dec SEP 1914 I suggest. But look for near numbers to confirm this. Charlie Edit 16015 and 16018 seem to be early (c13th) Nov 1914 as is 15990 series Effects here Help ! @ss002d6252 Edited 28 July , 2020 by charlie962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianmorris547 Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 Pete The Green Howards museum has enlistment registers for 1914. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrewer Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 (edited) Are you interested in other aspects?....apparently he was an athlete whose family ran the public baths. Courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive Edited 28 July , 2020 by sadbrewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 1 hour ago, charlie962 said: War Gratuity suggests c Dec SEP 1914 I suggest. But look for near numbers to confirm this. Charlie Edit 16015 and 16018 seem to be early (c13th) Nov 1914 as is 15990 series Effects here Help ! @ss002d6252 I'll pop in shortly for a proper look. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 2 hours ago, charlie962 said: War Gratuity suggests c Dec SEP 1914 I suggest. But look for near numbers to confirm this. Charlie Edit 16015 and 16018 seem to be early (c13th) Nov 1914 as is 15990 series Effects here Help ! @ss002d6252 As a manual calculation. Hatfield has a war gratuity of £11 10s net - £13 10s gross. The basic for a sgt was £8. This would then give us 23 months service at death and the month from 01 November 1914 Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 Thanks Craig. That now ties up with near numbers and enlistment c 13/11/14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine pete Posted 28 July , 2020 Author Share Posted 28 July , 2020 Thankyou all for the time and experts information Best Regards Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaySearching Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 Pete Will probably know that Thomas was the brother of John Gatenby Hatfield (Jack Hatfield) the Olympic swimmer who competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic games winning three medals for Great Britain Jack served as Gunner 311491 in the Royal Artillery during the war (he survived) Thomas is commemorated on his parents grave marker in Linthorpe cemetery I have a photo of the grave marker and a bio among my files somewhere Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadbrewer Posted 28 July , 2020 Share Posted 28 July , 2020 (edited) 38 minutes ago, RaySearching said: Pete Will probably know that Thomas was the brother of John Gatenby Hatfield (Jack Hatfield) the Olympic swimmer who competed in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic games winning three medals for Great Britain Jack served as Gunner 311491 in the Royal Artillery during the war (he survived) Thomas is commemorated on his parents grave marker in Linthorpe cemetery I have a photo of the grave marker and a bio among my files somewhere Ray A picture of Jack....I'm sure I read an article where he saved the lives of two drowning soldiers....I'll have a dig around. Edit... an article from November 1915 saying that Jack had enlisted also said he had another brother serving in The Dardanelles. Edited 28 July , 2020 by sadbrewer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine pete Posted 29 July , 2020 Author Share Posted 29 July , 2020 13 hours ago, sadbrewer said: A picture of Jack....I'm sure I read an article where he saved the lives of two drowning soldiers....I'll have a dig around. Edit... an article from November 1915 saying that Jack had enlisted also said he had another brother serving in The Dardanelles. Jacks farther was a freemason in Peace Lodge in Middlesbrough 1919 Thanks for all of your help Regards Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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