CFHS code : HT594
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : 26874 Private C F G HOYE E Kent Reg (The Buffs) d 19 July 1919 aged 19
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202673, 0.13833785 – click here for location
Monument
This Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstone, in the parish area of Holy Trinity, is located in the south-east corner of the cemetery, to the west side of the eastern path after the latter has turned northwards, eight rows back.
Inscription
[regimental badge]
‘26874 Private C F G Hoye
E. Kent Regt. (The Buffs)
19th July 1919 Age 19’
[cross]
“Till we meet again”
Cecil Frederick George Hoye (1900-1919)
Cecil was born in 1900 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He was the third of eleven children born to Frederick Charles Hoye (1873-1946) and Elizabeth Hoye (née Mowlam) (1872-1930). The family lived at 5 York Street, Cambridge. Frederick enlisted as Private 26874, 3rd Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) during the war. He died on 19 July 1919, aged 19 at the Military Hospital in Cork, Ireland. As he had died ‘at home’ his body was transferred back to Cambridge and buried in his home town. Cecil was also commemorated on the Cambridge Guildhall War Memorial.
[If you know anything further of this man, please contact us at friendsofmillroadcemetery@gmail.com.]
Sources:
War Graves Photographic Project
www.roll-of-honour.com
Census: 1901, and 1911
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
UK, Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929
By Ian Bent and Emma Easterbrook