Name
Herbert Frary
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Herbert (or Harry) Frary was born at Kirby Cane, Norfolk, one of six children born to William and Elizabeth Frary. William worked as a Woodman at the time of the 1901 Census.
By 1911 Herbert’s sister, Rose, was employed as a General Domestic Servant at “Arycot” in Abbots Road, Abbots Langley, which was the family home of Dr Edward Alment.
It might have been through this local association that Herbert Frary came to be included on the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour, as no record can be found for him living in the village. However he was first recorded in the Parish Magazine, when in October 1915 his wife Mildred was reported as having given birth to a daughter – Mildred. Herbert was listed in the Parish Roll of Honour for the first time in January 1917, serving with the Royal Navy aboard HMS “Swiftsure”, a pre-dreadnought battleship, engaged on convoy duties in the North Atlantic. HMS “Swiftsure” was “paid off” in April 1917 and its crew transferred to anti-submarine craft. It is not certain what happened to Herbert.
It is presumed that Herbert Frary survived the War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
