Name
Herbert Jocelyn
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
SD/323
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Herbert Horace Jocelyn was born in on 4 August 1892 in Great Hallingbury, Essex to Horace and Susannah Jocelyn and baptised on 9 October 1892 at St Giles, Great Hallingbury. In 1901 the family were living in the village of Little Hallingbury, Essex where his father was a shoemaker and bootmaker. On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 8 New Path, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Nurseryman's Gardener.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Eastbourne on 5 September 1914 into the Royal Sussex Regiment, 11th Battalion (otherwise known as the 1st Southdowns Battalion or 'Lowther's Lambs' after Lt Colonel Claude Lowther MP who raised the battalion). He went to France on 3 March 1916 and was reported missing, presumed dead, on 3 September 1916 during an attack near Beaumont-Hamel.
Additional Information
His mother Susannah received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £7 10s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
