Name
Errol Russell Garnett
11 May 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Wiltshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WARLENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. D. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Errol Russell Garnett was born on 11 May 1892 in Georgetown, Demerara, British Guyana, the son of George Russell Garnett, and Henrietta Matilda Augusta Garnett, and one of three children. Members of the family regularly sailed to and from England and Guyana. His father was a West Indian merchant.
He was listed on the 1911 Census as an 18 year old student at the South Eastern Agricultural College in Wye, Kent.
He arrived in New York on 9 November 1912 en route to Toronto, Canada.
His parents were said to be living at "Oaklyn," Cross Oak Rd., Berkhamsted, Herts in 1916.
Errol was a civil engineer at the time of enlistment.
Wartime Service
Errol initially served as Private 24944 with the 13th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, enlisting on 25 September 1914. He stated he had served with the Officers Training Corps for 5 years.
He later obtained a commission with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant.
He was reported missing in action and date of death was accepted as 18 October 1916 during the attack on the Gird Lines. At the end of the war his body was located, exhumed and reburied in Warlencourt British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father received pay owing of £60 19s 6d from the British Army and £3 18s from the Chief Paymaster for Overseas Military Forces of Canada.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
