Service Details
Name:
 HATTON
Given Name:
 HORACE WALTER SMEATHMAN
Initials:
 H W S
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South Staffordshire Regiment
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Unit:
 3rd Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1918-08-23
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Date of Birth:
 1889-03-13
Age:
 29
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
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.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. A. 13.

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