Name
Herbert Stanley Ball
28/02/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
21016
East Surrey Regiment
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the missing
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt Memorials,
Ponders End Congregational Church Memorial
Pre War
Herbert Stanley Ball was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 28 February 1898, son of William Ball a, Police Constable and Laura Malewis Ball (nee Sandercock). The youngest of six children, three sisters and two brothers.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 3, living with his parents and four siblings at, 13, Hatton Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
On 10 September 1901, aged 3, Herbert started school at St Marys Infant School, Cheshunt, transferring to Dewhurst Endowed Boys School, Cheshunt, on 1 June 1905, he left School, on 7 July 1912 aged 14, to start work.
1911 Census records Herbert aged 13, at school, living with his parents, brothers William (23), Horace (15) and sister Amy (22) at, 1 Rochford Villas, Blindmans Lane, Cheshunt.
His parents later moved to 333, High Street, Ponders End, Middlesex.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Mill Hill, Lon/Middx. Joining the East Surrey Regiment with the service number 21016. Posted to the 3rd Battalion, at the Depot Training Unit at Grand Shaft Barracks, Dover.
On completion of his training, he was posted to the 13th Battalion, seeing action on the Western Front. He was killed in Action on 26 November 1917, aged 19, during an operation around Bourlon Wood and Bourlon Village, (24 to 27 November 1917).
He has no known grave; and is commemorated on the Cambria Memorial to the missing.
Additional Information
His mother Laura Ball received a Dependents Pension of 5/6 a week from 18 June 1918.
His effects of £4-7s-2d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £6-10s-00d, went to his father William Ball
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
