Name
Herbert Childs
21 Oct 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
86647
Royal Field Artillery
29th Ammunition Park
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY
D. 77.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
St Stephens Parish Memorial, Obelisk, Park Street, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Frogmore, Not on the St Albans memorials
Pre War
Herbert was born on 21 Oct 1893 in Park Street, St Albans (baptised 14 Jun 1996, Frogmore) to Richard Childs, an agricultural labourer at a sewage farm, and Eliza (nee Waller).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Herbert, Albert (born 1877), a farm labourer as were his brothers Harry (born 1882) and Fred (born 1887), were living at Park Street with Kate (born 1889), Annie (born 1891), Mary (born 1896), Clara (born 1898) and Arthur (born 1901). On the 1911 Census Herbert (a farm labourer) was living with his father (now a Builders Labourer), mother, Albert, Clara, and Arthur.
Wartime Service
No Service Records were found for Herbert. Herbert must have enlisted in 1914 as Gunner 86647 in the Royal Field Artillery as by 1 Apr 1915 he went to Egypt. He was at the Cape Helles Landings with 29 Division Ammunition Park, landing on 25 Apr 1915.
Herbert was killed in action on 11 Jul 1915. (probably a result of Turkish fire as no part of the Helles peninsula offered safe areas or shelter.)
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £5 and arrears of £1 17s 4d was paid to his father Richard. His brother Albert served with East Surrey Regiment and Labour Corps dying at home on 22 Jan 1918.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
