Name
James Lively Gregory
27th March 1860
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
55
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Not yet known
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born on 27 Mar 1860 in Old Windsor, Berkshire son of Joseph and Martha (Dunn) Gregory. He was living in New Road, Ware with his widowed mother in 1901. He married Ellen Victoria Roden in 1904 and lived in York House, 86 Fore Street, Hertford in 1911. He was a Professor of Music, composer and organist at All Saint’s Church, Hertford.
Wartime Service
He had been attending the Hertford Conservative Club in Bull Plain and was killed by a Zeppelin raid. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Additional Information
Not in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
