Name
Herbert Brinklow
6 January 1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
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Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
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UK & Other Memorials
Marlowes Methodist Church War Memorial, Hemel Hempstead (*1)
Pre War
Herbert Brinklow was born on 6 January 1878 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the son of David and Ellen Brinklow and one of nine children. He was baptised in Hemel Hempstead on 13 March 1884.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Chapel Street, Hemel Hempstead, when his father was working at the Paper Mill. They had moved to 27 Bury Hill, Hemel Hempstead by the time of the 1891 Census and remained there in 1901 at which time, Herbert was working as an Envelope Cutter at the nearby Paper Mill (J Dickinson & Co) at Apsley, where most of the family also worked.
He had moved out of the family home by the 1911 Census and although still working as an Envelope Cutter, he had moved to Hyde, Cheshire and was a boarder at the home of William and Sarah Turner and their family at 43 Cheapside.
According to the National Roll of the Great War, his home address was 27 Bury Hill, Hemel Hempstead where, presumably his parents were still living, however his enlistment form gave his address as 43 Cheapside, Hyde.
On the 1939 Register Herbert was living at 72 Chapel Street, Hemel Hempstead. He was unmarried and working as a General Labourer. He died in 1952.
(Brother to Horace Brinklow who served with the Royal Engineers and survived the war.)
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hyde on 3 November 1914, joining the 6th Cheshire Regiment (Reg. No. 3084), and was initially passed as fit for the territorial force.
According to the National Roll of the Great War, he was not sent to the Front owing to medical grounds, but rendered valuable service until discharged in October 1915 as unfit for further military duty, however his pension record gives the date of discharge as 11 November 1914 and the commencement of a pension as 13 July 1918, so perhaps he was engaged on guard duties at home as the National Roll suggests. (N.B. there appears to be no Silver War Badge awarded).
Additional Information
*1 Marlowes Methodist Church was one of the five churches that merged in 2006 to form Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church. The Marlowes Methodist Church building was built in 1890 and used regularly from then until 2006 and then again as the main Hemel Hempstead Methodist Church building from May 2012 until it finally closed in March 2014. The war memorial was removed from the building before demolition and passed to the local British Legion. The war memorial is unusual in that it names those who returned safely as well as those who died.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
mymethodisthistory.org.uk
