HISCOCK, William Harold

William was born 1898 in Newport to William Albert & Celia (nee FRY) HISCOCK. William was predeceased by his father & his mother had remarried, becoming Mrs Celia RICHMOND & was living at Lower Road, Grays Wood Haslemere, Hampshire around the time of William’s death. The family had previously lived at 23 Pyle Street in Newport, & 2 Cross Street.

William, aged 20, was Killed in Action on the 30th of September 1918. He rests in the Masnieres British Cemetery in France beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”, alongside 166 of his First World War comrades, of whom 17 remain unidentified.

William is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.