Lieutenant Hewitt HUGGARD (1908)

6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), East Yorkshire Regiment
Born 5 August 1889 at Bishop's Street, Tuam, County Galway
Presumed killed in action 9 August 1915, aged 26
Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. Also commemorated on the Dungannon war memorial, County Tyrone; and on the Roll of Honour in the East Yorkshire Regimental Chapel, Beverley Minster, Yorkshire.

Hewitt Huggard was the son of Revd Richard Huggard MBE and Frances Marion Huggard of John’s Vicarage, Barnsley. He and his brother Lewis (who was also killed in the war) both played for Barnsley Rugby Club.

He was educated at Bromsgrove School, and took a second-class degree in History in 1911.

He joined up in August 1914, and served in Egypt before being sent to Gallipoli.

He was reported wounded and missing during an attack on Tekke Tepe Ridge, at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on 9 August 1915.