Name
Herbert Hull
1897/98
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4801
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and face 9D, and 16B
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Goff's Oak Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Herbert Hull was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1897/98, son of William Hull a, Foreman Navvy and Elizabeth Hull. (nee Kitchener). One of thirteen Children although four died in infancy.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 4, living with his parents, four sisters and three brothers in, Hammond Street, Cheshunt, Herts. The 1911 Census records Herbert aged 13, at school, living with his parents, two sisters and three brother, still in Hammond Street. At the time Herbert was attending Dewhurst Endowed Boys school, he left in July 1911 to start work.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted in September 1915, at Shoreditch, he is shown as living at Cheshunt Common, Herts, at the time. Posted to the 1st/4th (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment, with the service number 4801.
On completion of his training Herbert was sent to France, arriving on the 28th October 1915, seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on the 9th September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, (1st July 1916 to 18th November 1916), he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £2-18s-01d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3-10s-00d, went to his father William.
The HQ of the 1st/4th (City of London) Battalion, (Royal Fusiliers) London Regiments was at 112 Shaftsbury Street, Shoreditch, London.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
