Caffyn H H Captain 1st North Staffs Regiment
CAPTAIN H. H. CAFFYN
1st BATTALION THE PRINCE OF WALES’S (NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT)
HAROLD HUNT CAFFYN was the eldest son of Stephen Mannington Caffyn, M.D., and of Kathleen his wife.
He entered Rugby in 1896, and left in 1898. After passing through Sandhurst he received a Commission in the 2nd Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1901, and served with his Regiment in the South African War in 1901-02, receiving the Queen’s Medal with two clasps, and afterwards in India. Early in 1913 he received an appointment under the Colonial Office as Private Secretary to the Governor of British Honduras, which he held for some 18 months.
He was recalled to England in the autumn of 1914, and was appointed to the 1st Battalion of his old Regiment with the rank of Captain. In January, 1915, he went to the Front in France, and was killed in action on March 22nd, 1915. Age 33.
The Governor of British Honduras wrote:- “He was a loyal Assistant to me, and I had a great regard for him. I was loth to let him go, but he was a born soldier and eating out his heart to help his country in the way he best understood, and it was his duty to go.”
Another leading Official of the Colony said :-“He was a good specimen of the young Military Officer of the best kind, attractive to all who knew him well by reason of his ardent enthusiasm, his keenness, his loyalty.”
The Officers of the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment, with which he served for nearly 12 years, thought most highly of his abilities as a soldier, and felt that if spared long enough he would certainly distinguish himself.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1