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Hubert John Hoare
No / Rank: 2849 Private
Regiment: South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales Volunteers)
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Born: Beaufort, Brecknock
Enlisted: Caerphilly
Residence:
Date Died: 14.05.1915
How Died: Died of Wounds
Theatre of War: France and Flanders
Brigade: 7th Division: 3rd (Regular Army) Landed in France 14.08.1914
Died Friday 14 May 1915. Aged 44
Son of Hubert and Emma Hoare, of Machen nr Newport, Mon.; husband of Mary
Anne Hoare of 25 Coedybrain Road, Llanbradach, nr Cardiff.
Buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery 3 miles north of Boulogne.
Lt Col John McCrae the author of the poem In Flanders Fields, who died
of pneumonia in 1918, is also buried in this cemetery together with almost
3,000 others.
The 2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment arrived in France in August 1914 although Pte Hoare arrived in February 1915 as part of a draft of replacements. The battalion was then involved in bitter fighting in Belgium during the spring of 1915. Between the capture of ‘Hill 60’ in April and the end of May numerous battles were fought that have collectively become known as the Second Battle of Ypres.
The Battalion had been engaged in gas attacks and fighting which was
so confused that at one time British and German troops occupied the same
trenches, separated only by sandbag barricades. They also spent five days
occupying trenches around Hill 60 where the enemy trenches were between
15 and 60 yards away. It is likely that Private Hubert Hoare was wounded
during this period.
Wounded men were evacuated first to a Casualty Clearing Station near the
front and then to a Base Hospital well behind the front line.
Pte H.J.Hoare is also commemorated on the Llanbradach War Memorial.