Name
Herbert George Brewster
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
1718
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Coy. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. A. 143.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford, Hertford Working Men’s Club (Now Sloppy Joe’s Bar), Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1895 son of William Henry and Helen Brewster, of 62 Fore Street, Hertford. He worked in the family’s shop in Fore Street as a fishmonger.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford on 1 May 1911 as a Territorial and attended annual camp.
Embodied on 5 Aug 1914 as a Lance Corporal and was promoted to Corporal on 18 Sep 1914, embarked at Southampton on 5 Nov 1914 and was acting Lance Sergeant from 14 Jan 1915.
He was wounded by a gunshot to the right cheek on 11 May 1915 and was admitted to hospital at Boulogne and repatriated to England.
He re-entered France on 23 Feb 1916 at Rouen, joined the battalion in the field on 14 Mar 1916 and died of wounds in 13th General Hospital in Boulogne.
Additional Information
Herbert is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
