Name
Herbert William Sexton
13 September 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Sergeant Major
935
Royal Engineers
1st/2nd East Anglian Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
D.1.1.
Malta
Headstone Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
UK & Other Memorials
Knebworth Village Memorial, Knebworth (Old), St Mary & St Thomas Church Memorial, Knebworth Park, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Borough of Luton War Memorial, Beds/
Pre War
Herbert William (Bert) Sexton was born on 13 September 1894 at Deards End Cottages, Knebworth, Herts, the son of James and Elizabeth Sexton and one of ten children.
On the 1901 Census Herbert and his siblings were recorded living with their mother at Deards End Cottage in Knebworth. His father was not with them, but was at the G.N.R. Signal Box in Knebworth working as a railway signalman. They remained in Knebworth in 1911 but had moved to Homeleigh, Gun Road, at which time Herbert was out of work, but had been working as a telegraph messenger for the Post Office. Before enlistment he was working as a Clerk for the Great Northern Railway Office in Luton and was a member of the Territorial Army, serving in the East Anglian Royal Engineers before the war.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Luton, Beds and served with 1/2nd East Anglian Field Company, Royal Engineers as Company Sergeant Major. He was posted to the Dardanelles in July 1915, arriving on 16 August, and was present at the Sulva Bay landings in Gallipoli.
Bert became ill with Enteric Fever whilst serving in Gallipoli. He was transferred to hospital in Malta but died there on 30 October 1915, aged 21. He is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.
Additional Information
His father obtained probate of his estate in London on 14 February 1916 with effects of £132 13s. He received a war gratuity of £11 10s and pay owing totalling of £14 4s 4. A pension card exists with his mother as dependant but gives no indication of any pension awarded.
He had two brothers who were also in the services, one in Gallipoli and one in Serbia.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, www.roll-of-honour.com
