Second Lieutenant Richard George HART (1913)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 10th (Service) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Born 27th December 1892 in Northern Rhodesia
Killed in action 30th July 1916, aged 23
Buried at the London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval, Somme, France.

Richard Hart was the son of Frank Eden Hart and Amy Hart of 205, Uchi St, North Kana, Northern Rhodesia.

He was educated at Warwick School, where he played in the 1912-13 Rugby XV, and came to Merton as a Rhodes Scholar in 1913 to read Chemistry.

He joined up in September 1914 and was sent to France.

He was killed in action on 30 July 1916, during an attack on the Intermediate Trench, near High Wood (North of Bazentin-le-Petit).