In Memory Of

HATTON, HORACE WALTER SMEATHMAN

Service Details
Age:
 29
Date of Birth:
 1889-03-13
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 3rd Bn.
Unit 2:
 attd. 2nd Bn.
Regiment:
 South Staffordshire Regiment
Date of Death:
 1918-08-23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, his company came under fire as it reorganised in a trench 150 yards West of the village Courcelles-le-Comte at noon
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 II. A. 13.
Cemetery:
 DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of the Rev. John Leith Smeathman Hatton and Edith Martha Nek Hatton, of West Barkwith Rectory, Wragby, Lincs. Born West Barkwith, Lincolnshire, England. Served for 4 years in the British South African Police Force in Rhodesia. He then joined the British South Africa Civil Service. His brother E A H Hatton also died in service. On Bottesford War Memorial. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918.