George [Reginald Cecil] Herring

Name

George [Reginald Cecil] Herring
1886

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

22/07/1916
30

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Private
12560
Coldstream Guards
2nd Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
Plot I, Row A, Grave 22.
Belgium

Headstone Inscription

None

UK & Other Memorials

Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Langleybury Village Memorial, Hunton Bridge

Pre War

George Herring was born in Watford, Herts, the son of Charles and Emma Herring (nee Cremer), however, the only birth registered in the Watford district at the right time (1886) is for Reginald Cecil. 

His parents had married on 31 August 1880 at All Saints, Knightsbridge, London. His mother died on 8 May 1897 in Watford, aged 42, and was buried on 12 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. 


On the 1891 Census, a Cecil aged 4 was living with his parents and four siblings, Frank, Charles, May and Ernest at The Stables, Clarendon Park, nr Hunton Bridge, Watford where his father was working as a groom/coachman. After his mother died, on the 1901 Census, Cecil aged 14 still lived in Watford, with his widowed father and siblings.  By the 1911 Census, Cecil aged 24 was a footman in Marylebone, London.

His father later lived at St Dominic, Cornwall and died died on 1 April 1929 in the Tavistock district of Devon, aged 76, and was buried at St Dominic.

Wartime Service

He enlisted in London and joined the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, serving in France from 9 February 1915. 

He was killed in action on  22 July 1916 and is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium. 

Additional Information

His father received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £7 7s 6d. 

His brother Charles served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment, died on16 August 1917 and, having no known grave, is named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. He also features on the Watford Borough Roll of Honour and Langleybury Village Memorial. 

Acknowledgments

Brenda Palmer
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)