Hayward, KA
(1897 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
15th October 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1911 - 1914
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
38 Nightingale Lane, Balham
REGIMENT
Royal Field Artillery
FINAL RANK:
Captain
DATE OF DEATH:
22nd November 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
21
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Fermoy
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Battersea Rise Cemetery. 10330.
Captain Kenneth Alfred Hayward
Kenneth was born on October 15th 1897, the second child, but eldest son, of civil engineer and surveyor Thomas Hayward and his wife, Anne. Having previously been a boarder at Monkton Combe Junior School in Somerset, he came to Dulwich in September 1911, shortly before his fourteenth birthday. After three years he left in the summer of 1914 to take up a place at University College, London.
Shortly before Kenneth started university in the autumn of 1914, war was declared, and in his first year he became a member of the London University O.T.C. In May 1915, despite being aged just 17, he was granted a commission in the Royal Field Artillery, being attached to the 165th Brigade with whom he went to the front for the first time that November. Severely wounded at Givenchy the following April, he was invalided home for three months, on his return in July being promoted to Lieutenant and reassigned to the 325th Brigade. The following January he was promoted once more, to Captain and also appointed Adjutant. He was still serving in these roles when he passed away in Fermoy Military Hospital in Ireland as a result of influenza on November 22nd 1918, shortly after the signing of the armistice.
