Lieutenant Maurice HEMMANT

1887 - 1917  (29 years)

• Name	Maurice HEMMANT
  Title	Lieutenant
  Birth	10 Sep 1887	Blackheath
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Aug 1917	Steenbeek, Langemark, Belgium
  Person ID	I0134	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	William HEMMANT,   b. 24 Nov 1837, Kilgate, Yorkshire, England d. 20 Sept 1916, Kent, England (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Lucy Elizabeth Ground,   b. Apr 1843, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England d. 1897, Sevenoaks, Kent, England (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1866	Holy Trinity Church, Coates, Cambridgeshire, England
  	Bedfordshire Times and Independent 29 Sept 1866: '...Lucy Elizabeth, Eldest daughter of Daniel Ground, Esq., Eldernell, Cambridgeshire' Bedfordshire Times and Independent 29 Sept 1866. '...Lucy Elizabeth, Eldest Daughter of Daniel Ground, Esq., Eddernell, Cambridgeshire'
  Family ID	F928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 14 Aug 1917 - Steenbeek, Langemark, Belgium  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Short account of the deaths of Richard Atkin and Maurice Hemmant, 14th August 1917. Action crossing the Steenbeek stream
  		Condolence letters on death of Maurice Hemmant Published letters of condolence for memorial service c. August 1917
  		Letters to Mary Hemmant from Lizzie and JR Atkin August 1917 After the deaths of their bothers and sons. 6 letters. Painful reading.

  
  

• Notes

  Pemboke College, Cambridge, 1906. (as did 2 other brothers) Golf blue, then a rubber planter in Malaya who enlisted in 1914. Commemorated on the Menin Gate, died same day as Richard Atkin. CWGC memorial: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1613690/HEMMANT,%20MAURICE Commemorated also at St Mary’s Kippington, Kent.