Cemetery: St. Sever Cemetery Rouen

Country: France

Area: Seine-Maritime

Rank: Private

Force: Army

Official Number: 6429

Unit: 1st Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Country of Service: British

Details:

26th July 1916. B. 38. 12. Real name is Richard Lovatt (see below info provided by Peter Marsden)

This man Died of Wounds on the 26th July 1916, and his records include the  declaration for, 6429 Joseph Lovatt , which is signed by his wife Mary Ellen Lovatt on the 6th August 1919,  this declaration also shows the name of Richards full blood brother Joseph Lovatt of 8 School Terrace, New Village, Bentley, Doncaster and there’s a note which reads,

 

“My Husbands real name was Richard, army name Joseph and his Brothers name is Joseph”v

 

The son of Richard and Ann Elizabeth Lovatt of 5 Upper Normacot Road, Longton, Staffordshire, and husband of Mary Ellen Lovatt (nee Hassall), he was born Longton and enlisted at Pontifract on the 11^th May 1900,  in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and served in China and India.

On the 19^th September 1914  he became part of the British Expeditionary force France, and on the 26^th July 1916  he died of wounds in Hospital at Rouen, France.

Photograph by Michel van Cauteren / Alec Briggs