Name
Herbert Catterill
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/06/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
27096
Royal Field Artillery
65th Howitzer Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
II. C. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hitchin but enlisted in London. His wife lived in Mitcham. He was the second son of Mrs C. Sells of 3, Maxwell Cottages, Bedford Road, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Herbert was allocated the Regimental Number 27096. He was mobilised in August 1914 and was killed in action in France whilst with the 65th Howitzer Battery. His death was at 3.00pm when the dugout he was in near Roclincourt was struck by a gas shell. He was made unconscious by the gas and efforts to revive him in the fresh air were unsuccessful.
Roclincourt is immediately north of Arras. The 65th Battery was equipped with 4.5" howitzers and was part of the 28th Army Brigade Royal Field Artillery. It was probably in the XIII Corps in the 1st Army the day after the capture of Oppy Wood in the 3rd Battle of the Scarpe.
He was buried in Plot 2, Row C, Grave 23 in the Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France. His gravestone records him to have been in the ‘Royal Field Artillery’.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
