Name
Herbert Perry
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
45474
Royal Army Medical Corps
55th Field Amb
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
M M
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE
Div. 62. V. K. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE WAS AS BRAVE AS A LION & WORKED TO HIS LAST OUNCE IN THE CAUSE OF HIS WOUNDED COMRADES
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Herbert Perry (known as Bertie or Bert) was born in 1893, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, son of Esther Brown and adopted son of Heney Charles Perry.
Henry Charles Perry married Esther Brown in 1897, in Edmonton, Middx, his second wife.
1901 Census, Herbert is recorded as Bertie Brown, aged 9, living with his mother Esther Perry, stepfather Henry Charles Perry and half-brother Henry Jr. Perry (3) at, 161 Turners Hill, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census records Herbert as Bert Perry (18), son of Henry and Esther Perry of 30 Lea Road, Waltham Cross, Herts. He is employed as a Bakers Assistant.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted in September 1914, at Wallington, posted to the Royal Army Medical Corps with the service number 45474. On completion of his training, he arrived in France in July 1915, seeing action on the Western Front.
Herbert was awarded the Military Medal for bravery, Gazetted 28th September 1917.
He received Gun Shot Wounds to both knees, Thighs and Legs on 1st October 1918, admitted to No. 2 General Hospital, Le Havre, France, where he died of blood poisoning on 18th October 1918, aged 25. He is buried in St. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France.
Additional Information
His mother Esther received a Dependents Pension of 5/- a week for life from 15th July 1919, and his effects of £7-18-00, pay owing and his war gratuity of £23.
His Headstone inscription “HE WAS AS BRAVE AS A LION & WORKED TO HIS LAST OUNCE IN THE CAUSE OF HIS WOUNDED COMRADES“ was requested by Mr H. C. Perry, of 57 College Road, Cheshunt, Via Waltham Cross, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
