Noel McDouall Hathorn
Noel McDouall Hathorn
In January 1915 Noel was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Reserve of Officers attached to the 76th (brigade/battn) Punjabis. He went onto serve in the Suez and Mesopotamia. Noel was mentioned in despatches. While leading his company of men across a waterway, on 14th July 1915, near Nasar-i-jeh in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) he was shot in the head and died. He was 24 years old. He was buried in Basra War Cemetery. He is also commemorated on Dover College (Dover) War Memorial, Folkestone War Memorial and Wye College War Memorial.
Noel Hathorn was the second son of Emily Rose and Charles Hugh Vans Hathorn and younger brother to George Hugh Vans Hathorn. He was born 26th December 1891, Assam India. He lived with his paternal grandmother Mary Hathorn (1901 census) and attended Pretoria School, Folkestone. He went onto Dover College (Dover) before attending Wye College, Kent (an agricultural College). In 1911 he left England after visiting his younger brother (Charles) at Oundle, Northamptonshire and travelled to Ceylon where he was tea a planter.
