This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 B. C. Hoft (Bertie Hoft) (Hoft, Bertie) Service no 10050 Private, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 10th Battalion Born in Lambeth; enlisted in Battersea Died of wounds at around age 19 on 7 May 1916 Remembered at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census Bertie Hoft and his brother Hermann Hoft (who served in the war and survived) were sons of Hermann Hoft. Hermann Senior, 47, worked as a syrup maker for a mineral water factor. He was born in Germany. His wife, Christiana Hoft, 48, was born in St George's, London. They had 6 children: Christiana M. Hoft, 21 Hermann L. Hoft, 19, a van guard in the mineral water factory James F. Hoft, 17, a builder's labourer George C. Hoft, 15, a machine cleaner in a tobacco factory Bertie C. Hoft, 13, at school and working as a newsboy Lilian M. Hoft, 10 All were born in Lambeth. Two boarders lived with the family: Elizjah Gathercole, 22, a single baker from Brandon, Norfolk, and William E. Wright, 32, a married butcher from Newbury, Berkshire. Information from the 1901 census In 1901 the family lived at 65 Bond Street, Lambeth. |
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