HIATT, Thomas


No.D/34463, Private, Thomas HIATT
Aged 56
medal entitlement unknown but at least Defence Medal
6th (Home Depot) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Died of Illness on Monday, 2nd June 1941


His headstone gives his birth in 1885 and his wife as Florence born 1885. That makes it likely that she is the Flora Ann HIATT at Dash End Clare in 1939 with Walter COOPER [66] an incapacitated retired farm bailiff (possible she was his housekeeper). The only Thomas HIATT of the correct age was an unemployed groom Thomas HIATT born 1885 at 14 Spencer Road, Battersea.

No marriage of these names has been found but transcription errors can make this surname change in many ways

Thomas, being in CGWC records as 6th Battalion Suffolk Regiment is somewhat surprising given his age. The grave is maintained by CWGC.

So far that is all that has been found, no positive identification of birth registration, nor marriage.

He died as Private 34463, Suffolk Regiment of carcinoma of the lungs at Combe Park Military Hospital, Bath.






Thomas Hiatt is buried in Clare cemetery grave 1101

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