Wilfred Oliver Hayes
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 82021
Parents: James and Elizabeth Hayes
Marital status: Married
Home address: Home address: Two Mile Hill, Kingswood, Bristol. Lived: 6 Bright Street, Kingswood, Bristol
Date of birth: 1890
Place of birth: Kingswood, Bristol
Date of death: 19/03/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried and commemorated at Kingswood Holy Trinity Church and on High Street Boys School Memorial Kingswood.
Age: 25
Further information:
Wilfred (mainly known as Oliver) was born in Kingswood, the son of a bootmaker and a middle child of five with two brothers and two sisters. He married Helen Estrilde Hunt in November 1915 just four months before he died.
Wilfred enlisted in 1915 in the same month as his marriage, and was recorded as being 5'8 ¾ " tall. He served on the Home Front in the RAMC and died at Sutton Veny military hospital near Warminster, of a cerebral embolism and influenza after only 131 days of service.
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This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/