Hamo Watts Sassoon (SAS7830)

Basic Information

Unique reference:

SAS7830

Gender:

Male

Birth

Date of birth:

27 Av 5648 (04 August 1888)

Place of birth:

Kent

Death

Date of death:

24 Heshvan 5676 (01 November 1915)

Died in combat?:

Yes

Place of death:

HM Hospital Ship: Kildonan Castle

Cause of death:

Died of wounds

Burial place:

Helles Memorial, Gallipoli

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De Ruvigny's Role of Honour
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Newspaper photo

Places

Addresses

Family home:

Weirleigh, Matfield Kent

Schools

Name:

New Beacon School, Sevenoaks

Name:

Malborough College

Name:

Clare College, Cambridge

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May Ball, Clare College Cambridge (Hamo second right sitting next to brother Siegfried)
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New Beacon School photo
Hamo is standing second from the right, his brother Siegfried is holding the cricket ball

Injury - transcribed from De Ruvigny's Role

"Hamo was sent out with his unit to put up some barbed wire in front of a trench after an advance, and was hit in the leg by a sniper.
He fell and crawled back to the parapet of the trench, from which he fell into the trench itself. They put on his first dressing, and he was shifted back, first to the Field Ambulance, and then to a casualty clearing station.
Hamo said that he did not want to expose others to the fire of snipers.
Hamo seemed to make light of his wounds, and was quite cheery."

Military Record

Military service:

Army

Date enlisted/conscripted:

1914

Date discharged/death:

01 November 1915

Rank at discharge/death:

Second Lieutenant

Invalided out of service:

28 October 1915

Assignments

Regiment:

Royal Engineers

Campaigns:

Gallipoli

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Register of effects
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Died of wounds
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Medal card

Roll of Honour

H. SASSOON, 01 November 1915

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