Name
Somerset Arthur Sherston
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)
3rd Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 18 Mar 1880 in Winchester, Hampshire son of Major Charles Davis Sherston, J.P., of Evercreech, Somerset. Educated at Haileybury College 1894-98. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 7 May 1902 and Lieutenant 26 Jun 1906. Served in South Nigeria 1909-10. He married Dorothy Eden Parke of Otley Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk on 2 Sep 1911 in Marylebone, London.
Wartime Service
Entered France in Sep 1914 and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
