Joachim Hartert

Lieutenant Joachim Charles (Karl) Hartert was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 2 November 1893, in Berkhamstead, the son of German ornitholigist Ernst Joachim Otto and Claudia Hartert (née Renard). Hartert received his formative educative at Berkhamstead School before going on to Wadham College, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He inherited his father's interest in nature, being an active member of the British Ornithologists' Club.The Ibis, 1917, p. 93.
Hartert had belonged to his university's OTC and volunteered soon after war broke out, being commissioned as a second-lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment. He died on 28 October 1916, during the Somme Offensive, while serving with the 8th East Yorkshires on the Western Front.
He is buried in Courcelles-au-Bois Communal Cemetery Extension.
==Notes==
==References==
*Hartert, Joachim Charles, cwgc.org. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
==External links==
*Charles Hartert's Letters, richardshepherd.net. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
Category:1893 births
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Category:British people of German descent
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