Name
Horace Herbert Culverhouse
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/05/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
105787
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
XV. J. 9.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
THOUGH THOUSAND OF MILES DIVIDE OUR BODIES OUR SOULS ARE EVER NEAR
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, All Saints Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Sunnyside War Memorial, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted Collegiate School, Berkhamsted, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Apsley Mills, Apsley, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral
Pre War
Horace Herbert Culverhouse as born in 1897 in Chesham, Bucks, the son of Herbert and Alice Culverhouse and one of five children although only four were living in 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 153 Waterside, Chesham where his father was working as a boot maker and repairer. By 1911 they had moved to 24 Gossoms End, Berkhamsted where his father continued his trade as a boot maker and Horace was a 13 year old schoolboy. He was educated at Berkhamsted Collegiate School.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and joined the Hertfordshire Yeomanry initially under reg. no. 2523, later changed to 105787 during the renumbering of 1917.
He died from pneumonia on 29 May 1917 and is buried in Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £2 17s 3d. He also ordered his headstone inscription while living at 23/24 Gossoms End, Berkhamsted, Herts. it reads: "THOUGH THOUSAND OF MILES DIVIDE OUR BODIES OUR SOULS ARE EVER NEAR".
Pension cards exist but give no indication of amount of pension received.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Gareth Hughes, Jonty Wild
