Name
Thomas Robert Munro Shervinton (*1)
27/08/1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8th Bn.
"C" Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 15 to 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Oxhey Village Memorial, Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Dunstable Grammar School Roll of Honour
Pre War
Thomas Robert Munro Shervinton was born on 27th August 1887,
in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the eldest son of Colonel Charles Robert St Leger
Shervinton (1823-1893), a Soldier of Fortune, who commanded the Malagasy Army
in its anti-French campaign of 1895, and committed suicide in 1898 by shooting
himself with a revolver, during a fit of temporary insanity, and Laura
Shervinton (nee Munro), Thomas was the oldest son of five children, Isabel
(born 1884), Charles (B 1890), William (B 1890) and Laura (B 1893).
His parents
married 18 April 1882 in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Charles died 19 April 1898 in St James’,
Middx, aged 45; Laura died 16 November 1931 in Broadstairs aged 70.
1891 the family
was probably living in Madagascar.
The 1901 Census
records Thomas aged 13, living with his widowed mother and his four siblings at
2, Regents Street, Dunstable, Beds. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant.
Thomas attended Dunstable Grammar School.
1911 Census, no trace of Thomas or the family was found.
Wartime Service
Thomas Shervinton served as a Captain with The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), 8th Battalion and died of wounds received in action on 25th or 26th September 1915. (depending on the record) He was aged 28 and is remembered with honour on the Loos Memorial panel 15 - 19. No other information was found on his military currier.
His mother, Laura Shervinton, lived for a time at 67 Kingsfield Road, Oxhey, Herts, later moving to Broadstairs in Kent, living at “Claremont”, King Edward Avenue, were she died in November 1931.
His younger brother, William High Byam Shervinton, was killed in action in July 1916. He and his brother are both commemorated on the St Matthew’s Church memorial in Oxhey.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star Medals.
Additional Information
*1 Some records spell the name as Shervington. Son of the late Col. St. Leger Shervinton and of Mrs. Shervinton, of "Claremont", King Edward Avenue, Broadstairs, Kent. His brother also fell.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
