Name
Herbert Charles Byatt
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
265380
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
XIII. C. 7.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Herbert Charles Byatt was born in 1897 in Bishop's Stortford to Charles and Harriett Byatt. He was living with his family at 27 Castle Street, Bishop's Stortford on the 1911 Census and on enlistment, when he was working as a Draper's Sorter.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted aged 17 on 10 December 1913 initially into the 1st Hertfordshire Regiment, under reg. No. 2296. He embarked from Southampton on 5 November 1914 and was appointed Lance Corporal on 29 November 1916.
He was listed as wounded and missing in August 1917 and later found to have been captured at Ypres on 31 July 1917.
His death was officially accepted as 23 December 1917 in Aachen, Germany.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £15 10s and his father Charles received his pay owing of £22 6s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
