Name
Herbert Banks
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
250913
Essex Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
E. 217.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
THY WILL BE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Herbert
Banks was born in 1892 in Stebbing, Essex, the son of Jesse William and Sarah
Ann Banks. On the 1911 Census he was living with his family in High Street,
Stebbing, near Chelmsford and working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Herbert initially
served in the Essex Regiment under reg no. 3572. He served in the Balkans from 11
December 1915 and died of pneumonia in Egypt.
Additional Information
N.B. Some records incorrectly transcribed regimental number as 250915. His father Jesse received a war gratuity of £24 10s 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
