Second Lieutenant Edward Stokes Hatte

Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 138 to 140 and 162 to 162A and 163A.
Date published: 05/10/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 16/08/1917
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Second Lieutenant Edward Stokes Hatte, Royal Irish Rifles, who was killed in France on the 16th August, 1917, while most gallantly leading his men into action, was the eldest son of Mr. W. M. Hatte, Kington, Cowper Road. Dublin. He was a member of the Dublin University O.T.C. and of the Ceylon Tea Planters' Rifle Corps. He took part in the fight on the Suez Canal and was in the first landing and the withdrawal from the Dardanelles. He was severely wounded in September, 1916.