In Memory of REGINALD WITT Private 23061 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment who died on Friday 8th August 1916. Died aged 36.
One of the 4 sons (Robert, Herbert, Alfred and Reginald) who died during the war – of Vincent & Sarah WITT of ‘Windy Ridge’ Abbotswell Road (the old cottage). In the 1901 census Robert is 21 years old and is listed as a worker at a powder manufacturer (Shultze).
Commemorative Information
ESSEX FARM CEMETERY Leper, Belgium Grave Ref. 111.A.30
This cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Bloomfield and contains 1,097 burials. Essex Farm was a dressing station dealing with the casualties from the Somme Battlefield. The cemetery was used from April 1915 to August 1917
Source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Notes
The 1st Bn., Hampshire Regiment was on the Somme in 1916 and Robert was killed during the 1st Battle of the Somme. The 1st battalion of the Hampshire Regiment was part of the 4th Division and was involved in the Battle of Transloy from 1st to 8th September 1916.
Source – work done by Ann Sevier