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Surname: HURST
Forename(s): Claude
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire
Service No: C/7773
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Battalion / Unit: 18th (Service) Battalion. (Arts and Crafts)
Division: 41st Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1916-08-08
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: III. D. 15.
CWGC Cemetery: ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Claude Hurst was the son of Alfred Hartley and Rosanna Hurst, née Grout. Alfred was born at Skipton, Yorkshire and Rosanna at Stebbing, Essex.
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 11, Primrose Hill - Claude Hurst, aged 4 years, born Skipton, son of Alfred Hartley and Rosanna Hurst.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 17, Gladstone Street - Claude Hurst, aged 14 years, born Skipton, son of Alfred Hartley and Rosanna Hurst.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Claude Hurst, C/7773, K.R.Rif.C.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Claude Hurst, C/7773, 18th Bn K.R.Rif.C.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Claude Hurst, C/7773, 18th (S) Bn K.R.R.C. Date and Place of Death: 8.8.16. In Action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother - Rosanna. £6 13s. 1d.
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:
HURST, Rifleman Claude, K.R.R., aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Hurst, Water Street, Skipton, killed in action, Aug. 8, 1916.
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Rifleman Claude HURST
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 41st Division
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Essex Farm Cemetery
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Courtesy of Aurel Sercu, Boezinge, Belgium
Essex Farm Cemetery
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Courtesy of Aurel Sercu, Boezinge, Belgium
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08 September 1916
HURST – Killed on the Western Front, August 8th, Rifleman Claude Hurst, King’s Royal Rifles, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Hurst, Water Street, Skipton, aged 19 years.
08 September 1916
SKIPTON RIFLEMAN KILLED
After a lapse of a fortnight without serious news of Skipton men at the Front, we have this week to record the death in action of Rifleman Claude Hurst, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hartley Hurst, of Water Street, Skipton (formerly of Church Street). The official news from the War Office was received on Sunday morning, and this indicated that deceased was killed on August 8th. Nineteen years of age, deceased joined the King’s Royal Rifles in November, 1915, and went to the Front about Whitsuntide with a Service Battalion of the Regiment. Prior to joining the Army he was for some time engaged as farm servant at Mr. Collins’ farm, Broughton, and previously worked for Eastman’s, Ltd., butchers, Skipton. He was an old scholar at the Water Street Council School. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hurst, Gunner Sidney Hurst, is serving with the R.F.A.
10 August 1917
HURST – In loving memory of Rifleman Claude Hurst, King’s Royal Rifles, killed in action in France, August 8th 1916, aged 19 years.
Like a Briton he answered the call,
Although the call was great;
He gave his life for the land he loved,
He died for Britain’s sake.
16 August 1918
HURST – In loving memory of Rifleman Claude Hurst, killed in action in France, August 8th, 1915.
“Not forgotten.”
“He gave his life that others might live.”
From all.
15 August 1919
HURST - In loving memory of Rifleman Claude Hurst, K.R.R., killed in action near Ypres, August 8th, 1916.
“Always remembered.”
06 August 1920
HURST – In ever loving memory of Rifleman Claude Hurst, K.R.R.C., killed in action August 8th, 1916, at Ypres.
“Not forgotten.”
12 August 1921
HURST – In loving memory of Rifleman Claude Hurst, killed in action, August 8th, 1916.
“Ever in our thoughts.”
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08 September 1916
SKIPTON SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hartley Hurst, now of Water Street, and late of 8 Church Street, Skipton, received official notification from the War Office on Sunday morning last that their son, Rifleman Claude Hurst, of the 18th Service Battalion King’s Royal Rifles, had been killed in action on the 8th of August. Rifleman Hurst, who was only 19 years of age, enlisted at Keighley in November 1915, and went out to France about last Whitsuntide. He was an old scholar at the Water Street Council School, and was formerly employed as a farm servant by Mr. Collinge, of Broughton, and previous to that as a butcher by Messrs. Eastman’s, Sheep Street, Skipton. Mr. and Mrs. Hurst have another son, Gunner Sidney Hurst, who is serving in the Royal Field Artillery.
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