Name
Herbert William Negus
24/11/1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
131312
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
37th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIESLY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
C. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorials, Not on Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Herbert William Negus was born in Enfield, Middlesex, on 24th November 1898, son of James Negus a, Labourer at the Royal Gunpowder Factory and Sophia (Williams) Negus. His mother Sophia died in December 1898.
His father James Negus remarried in October 1899 in Edmonton, Middx, to Elizabeth Wren.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 2, living with his father, stepmother Elizabeth, stepsister Dorothy Wren (6), brothers James (11), Charles (9) and half-sister Ethel (7 months) at, 12 Albert Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, Herbert (12) is at school, living with his father, stepmother, stepsister Dorothy (16) half-sisters Ethel (10), Elsie (11 months), half-brothers Harold (9) and Leonard (6) at, 26 Queens Road, Waltham cross, Herts.
His stepmother Elizabeth died in 1918.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Royal West Kent Regiment with the service number 9578, later transferred to the 37th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, with the service number 131312. Seeing action on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on 11th October 1918, aged 19. He is buried in the Viesly Communal Cemetery, Viesly, France.
Additional Information
His effects of £4-00-05, pay owing and his war gratuity of
£9, went to his father James Negus.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
