Name
Herbert Brace
23/01/1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2882
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
IV. A. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
A WIDOW'S ONLY SON
UK & Other Memorials
St Thomas' Mission Hall, Green Tye,
St Thomas' Church Memorial, Perry Green,
Much Hadham Village Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham,
Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Herbert Brace was born on 23 January 1895, in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, son of Charles Brace a Beer House Keeper and Agricultural Labourer and Mary Ann (nee Prior) Brace. He was the eldest of three children. Christened on 17 March 1895, in Much Hadham, Herts.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 6, living with his parents, and sister Ada (1) at The Price of Wales PH, Green Tye, Herts. His father Charles Brace died in 1910.
In 1911 he was living with his widowed mother, sister’s Ada (11) and Minnie (6), in Green Tye, and employed as an apprentice carpenter.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 2882. He served on the Western Front. It is not known when Herbert was posted to the Gloucestershire Regiment. He died of wounds in No. 7 General Hospital at St Omer. At the time he was attached to the 2nd/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Extract from the Hertfordshire Regiment War Diary:
For the first three days in July 1916, the Hertfordshire Regiment were stationed in the trenches at sub sector Jeune De Bois. They suffered four casualties during this time, but there were no more until July 19th.
Additional Information
His mother Mary Brace received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 13 March 1917, her address was Peacocks Cottage, Green Tye, Herts. She also received his effects of £1-7s-0d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £8-10s-0d.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Jonty Wild
