Hugh Davey Labrum

Story:
Hugh Davey Labrum was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, in 1895 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 8th May 1895, the son of Richard Newman Labrum and Frances Mary Labrum (née Davey).  Hugh lived his very early childhood in Shaftesbury before the family moved to Warminster, Wiltshire.  Hugh enlisted with the 1st/4th (Territorial Force) Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment as a Private (Service Nos. 1550 and 200220).  He served in Mesopotamia attached to the 2nd Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment where he was captured and eventually died as a Prisoner of War on the presumed date of 24th May 1917.  He is remembered on the Basra Memorial, Basra, Iraq and on the Warminster War Memorial, Wiltshire.  He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star.