Stalbridge Remembers
ALFRED HANN
2nd Corporal WR/282931
30th Light Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers
formerly Private 4795
3/1st Buckingham Battalion Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action on Friday 17th June 1918
Aged 39
His grave No. IV.J.15 is in
MAROEUIL BRITISH CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS
Son of Kate Hann, of Ring Street, Stalbridge and
husband of Lily Jane Hann of The Post Office, Stourton Caundle
Personal details:
Alfred was baptised on 2nd July 1882 as Joseph Alfred Hann, son of Kate Hann. He had a younger brother, Ernest John. Kate was the daughter of Henry and Love Hann, Henry being a shoemaker. Alfred is shown as a general labourer for a Baker in the 1911 census, but was a Painter when he enlisted in the Army Reserve as a Private in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry on 10th December 1915. He married Lily Jane Harris of Stourton Caundle on 12th March 1916 eight days before he was due to be mobilised. Lily moved after the war to Wimborne.
Alfred was baptised on 2nd July 1882 as Joseph Alfred Hann, son of Kate Hann. He had a younger brother, Ernest John. Kate was the daughter of Henry and Love Hann, Henry being a shoemaker. Alfred is shown as a general labourer for a Baker in the 1911 census, but was a Painter when he enlisted in the Army Reserve as a Private in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry on 10th December 1915. He married Lily Jane Harris of Stourton Caundle on 12th March 1916 eight days before he was due to be mobilised. Lily moved after the war to Wimborne.
Military details:
Having spent a year with the 3/1st Buckingham Battalion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, Alfred transferred to the Royal Engineers in March 1917 as a Lance Corporal and was appointed to the 30th Light Railway Operating Company. The Light Railway Companies came into existence when it became clear that the maintenance of roads was becoming a severe problem, in terms of the manpower needed and enormous quantities of road stone clogging up the supply routes. The Company consisted of approximately 200 men in a number of trades, and their job was to run the trains, with the tracks being laid by Royal Engineers Railway Construction Companies. Many soldiers were transferred to these companies, but the records of where they operated have mostly disappeared. All that is known about the 30th Company is that it was raised in France and was most probably based near Arras. How Alfred was killed and where is not known.
Having spent a year with the 3/1st Buckingham Battalion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, Alfred transferred to the Royal Engineers in March 1917 as a Lance Corporal and was appointed to the 30th Light Railway Operating Company. The Light Railway Companies came into existence when it became clear that the maintenance of roads was becoming a severe problem, in terms of the manpower needed and enormous quantities of road stone clogging up the supply routes. The Company consisted of approximately 200 men in a number of trades, and their job was to run the trains, with the tracks being laid by Royal Engineers Railway Construction Companies. Many soldiers were transferred to these companies, but the records of where they operated have mostly disappeared. All that is known about the 30th Company is that it was raised in France and was most probably based near Arras. How Alfred was killed and where is not known.
Alfred Hann's grave
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Maroeuil British Cemetery
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A Light Railway Company
