Lt. Francis John HADDEN 1
- Born: 15 Dec 1861, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England 2
- Marriage (1): Marion Kate (May) THOMAS about 1887
- Died: 5 May 1916, Cairo, Egypt aged 54
General Notes:
Lt. Francis J. Hadden, 42nd Remount Sqdn., of Ceylon.
Educated at Rugby, tea planter in Ceylon.
2 sons killed in the war according to family tradition.
Census England 1871: Age 9, living in Scarborough, Yorkshire with parents and family
There is a F.J. Hadden, trooper, in the roll of the Ceylon Mounted Rifles 1892 and in South Africa, 1899, so he must have been a close friend of the Thomas brothers.
Lieutenant F J HADDEN
42nd Remount Sqdn.,Army Service Corps
who died
on 05 May 1916
Remembered with honour
CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY Grave F.53
Died of pneumonia at Giza hospital, Cairo. Commissioned in the Remounts 1915, he had been working in Egypt since that date.
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Image and Below Extract Ref: "Memorials of Rugbeians, who fell in the Great War Vol 1-7"
Printed for Rugby School by Philip Lee Warner (O.R.) of the Medici Society Ltd.
(By kind permission of the Medici Co.)
LIEUTENANT F. J. HADDEN
42ND SQUADRON REMOUNT SERVICE
FRANCIS JOHN HADDEN was the fourth son of Frederick John Hadden
j.p., of Wykeham Abbey, York.
He was in the School from 1875 to 1879. He then went out to his
father's coffee estates in Ceylon, and later became a Tea Planter. He was
a Steward of the Ceylon Turf Club, and raced in India and Ceylon, and he
took an active part in polo,
He had retired some years before the outbreak of War, but enlisted
in the London Yeomanry at the age of 52. Being discharged on account of
ill-health, he obtained a Commission in the Remount Service in July, 1915,
and had since then been working at Cairo until he fell ill. He died at
Cairo of double pneumonia on May 5th, 1916. Age 54.
Brigadier-General Bates, Director of Remounts in Egypt, wrote
"Not only was he a most efficient Officer, but his cheery nature
endeared him to us all, and he will be most sincerely mourned and missed."
He married, in 1887, May, daughter of Matthew Henry Thomas, of
Galleheria, Ceylon, and had three sons and a daughter. His second son,
Lieutenant Arthur Hadden (O.R.), 53rd Sikhs, was killed in action two
months earlier in Mesopotamia, on March 8th, 1916
Francis married Marion Kate (May) THOMAS, daughter of Mathew Henry THOMAS and Marianne Theresa SKINNER, about 1887. (Marion Kate (May) THOMAS was born about 1865 in Colombo, Ceylon and died on 30 Oct 1955 in 39 Molyneux Park Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England 3.)
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