Name
NORMAN ERNEST WHYBRAY
2/12/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/12/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Guardsman/Private
27324
Grenadier Guards
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials
Pre War
Norman Ernest WHYBRAY was born in Brixton, London &
Surrey, on 2nd December 1894, the only child of John Whybray a Domestic
Coachman and Mary Anne Whybray (nee Baumber).
Baptised on 27th January 1895, at St Matthews
Church, Brixton, London & Surrey, at the time the family were living at 12
Church Road.
1901 Census records Norman aged 6, living with his parents, at
24 Horsford Road, Lambeth, London & Surrey.
By the 1911 Census, Norman (16) and his parents were now
living at The Stables, Clock House, Forty Hill, Enfield, Middx. Norman was
employed as a Clerk.
Wartime Service
Norman enlisted in Enfield, Middx, posted to the Grenadier
Guards and issued with the service number 27324. On completion of his training
he was sent to France, seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in
Action on the 1st of December 1917, (the day before his 23rd
Birthday) aged 22. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Cambrai
Memorial to the missing. Panel 2.
Additional Information
His mother Mary received a Dependents pension of 8/- a week
from 9th July 1918, and his effects of £6-06-04, pay owing and his
war gratuity of £4.
His parents would later move to Stud Cottage, Theobald’s
Park, Waltham Cross, Herts, and from there to East View, Dorrington,
Lincolnshire. His parents are buried in Holycross Churchyard Extension,
Scopwick, Lincolnshire, where he is commemorated on their Headstone.
NORMAN ERNEST
WHYBRAY, WHO FELL IN ACTION, 1ST Dec 1917,
AGED 23 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
