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Surname: HAYGARTH
Forename(s): Benjamin
Place of Birth: Dent, Yorkshire
Service No: 224473
Rank: Driver
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion / Unit: 77th Battery
Division: ---
Age: 26
Date of Death: 1918-10-25
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: 4. B. 30.
CWGC Cemetery: RAWALPINDI WAR CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: DENT, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Benjamin Griffiths Haygarth was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Haygarth, née Griffiths and brother of L/Corporal John William Haygarth (2876) (q.v.). Their father was born at Dent, Yorkshire and mother at Acrefair, Denbighshire, Wales. Benjamin and John were cousins of Private Rainforth Pooley (11567) (q.v.).
1901 Dent, Yorkshire Census: Main Street - Benjamin Haygarth, aged 9 years, born Dent, son of Robert and Elizabeth Haygarth.
1911 Dent, Yorkshire census: Peggleswright - Benjamin Griffis [sic] Haygarth, aged 19 years, born Dent. [Benjamin was employed by his uncle, Matthew Haygarth, Farmer.]
Benjamin was married to Margaret Morphet in 1916. Margaret was the sister of L/Corporal John Middleton Morphet (2619) (q.v.). Margaret married William Greenwood Greenbank in 1928.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Dvr Benjamin Haygarth, 224473, R.F.A. Died 25.10.18. O/i.c. R.F.A. Recs. requests Auth. for disposal of Medals at 3.3.23.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Dvr Benjamin Haygarth, 224473, R.F.A. Died 25.10.18.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Driver Benjamin Haygarth, 224473, 77th Bty R.F.A. Date and Place of Death: 24.[sic]10.18. Rawalpindi. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Margaret. £18 7s. 1d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Benjamin. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Margaret M., born 27.3.90. Address: Gawthorpe Hall, Dent, Yorks.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: joint card(s) exist for Benjamin and John William. Name of Dependant: Mr Robert Haygarth. Relationship to Man: Father. Deceased. Name of Dependant: Elizabeth Haygarth. Relationship to Man: Mother. Address 1. Tower House, Dent, Sedbergh. Address 2. Main Street, Dent, Sedbergh.
The 1921 Census shows that Benjamin's widow, Margaret (born Sedbergh, Yorkshire), was living with her father Thomas Morphet at Main Street, Dent. The 1939 Register shows that Margaret, husband William, also Ernest Greenbank, single, born 14 November 1913 and Margaret Greenbank, later Wiseman, born 20 August 1928. were living at Tubhole, Sedbergh. Margaret died in 1975.
The entry for Benjamin Haygarth is duplicated in the CPGW book on page 367.
A short biography of Benjamin is included in: ‘Sedbergh and District 1914-1918 – But who shall return the children?’ Compiled by Sedbergh and District History Society. Edited by Diane Elphick (2016).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
HAYGARTH, B., aged 27, R.F.A., son of Mr. R. Haygarth, [Dent], died from pneumonia, Oct. 5, 1918.
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Driver Benjamin HAYGARTH
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17 December 1915
DENT – War Items
Herbert W. Jefford has joined the Transport Division of the Army as a motor driver.–On Saturday D.E. Davidson, M.E. Dinsdale, James Thompson, B. Haygarth, M.E. Haygarth, and Bryan Chapman, passed at Settle under Lord Derby’s scheme. Richard Gornal, jun., John Dawson, A. Hargreaves, and G.T. Fawcett have been rejected on medical grounds. Others passed as suitable are L. Benson, Rd. Capstick, W. Peacock and J.R. Fawcett.
24 December 1915
DENT
The Cowgill War Working Party have sent Christmas parcels to the men connected with the parish who are serving with the forces at home and abroad. Wm. Mason (Hill Top), W. Booth, B. Haygarth, and C. Thompson have joined the Army Veterinary Corps.
14 January 1916
DENT – ROLL OF HONOUR
The following have joined the forces from Dent:– William Mason (Hill Top), B. Haygarth, Jos. Thompson, G. Thompson, W. Booth, all in the 57th West Lancs. A.V.C. John Dinsdale, 18th Hussars; Jas. Capstick (Tofts) R.F.A.
09 June 1916
DENT – Khaki Wedding
A khaki wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Church on Thursday the 1st inst., when Benjamin Griffiths Haygarth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haygarth of Dent, was married to Miss Margaret Morphet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Morphet of Gawthorpe. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. Anthony Morphet of Barbon. Her two sisters, Misses M. and S. Morphet, acted as bridesmaids. Mr. M.E. Haygarth, brother of the bridegroom, was the best man. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. E.S. Curwen, vicar. The bridegroom is in the 27th West Lancashire Veterinary Corps, stationed at Preston. A rather singular coincidence is the fact that both bride and bridegroom have lost a brother John in the present war, these two being the only “killed in action” so far recorded in the Dent Roll of Honour.
13 October 1916
HAYGARTH – At Gawthrop, Dent, on the 9th inst., Alice, infant daughter of Benjamin Haygarth, aged 9 weeks.
15 November 1918
DENT – Died In India
Mr. R. Haygarth, of Dent, has received official intimation that his son, Private B. Haygarth, R.F.A., died of pneumonia in India on the 5th October. He joined the A.V.C. in December, 1915, but was later transferred to the R.F.A. and sent to India. He would have been 27 years of age on the following day. His younger brother, Lance-Corporal J. Haygarth (City of London Regiment) was the first lad who went direct from the Dale to fall in the war. He leaves a widow, the sister of Private John Morphet, who was killed in the war in August 1915.
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