Name
Herbert Stanley Womwell
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
203987
Norfolk Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANCOURT-LE-GRAND MILITARY CEMETERY
A.25
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ickleford memorials, Shillington Village War Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Shillington
Pre War
Herbert Stanley Womwell was born at Ickleford, Herts, in 1897, the son of William and Emma J Womwell of Village Street, Ickleford and one of six children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living in Village Street, Ickleford, where his father was working as a Miller. They had moved to Shillington Mill, Gravenhurst, Ampthill, Beds by 1911 where his father was the Miller and Herbert was a 14 year old scholar.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Hitchin, Herts and served with the 9th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment as Lance Corporal.
He was killed in action on 8 October 1918, probably during the Battle of Cambrai on the Hindenburg Line, and is buried in Brancourt-le-Grand Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £8 10s and two separate payments of pay owing totalling £13 6s 11d.
His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer, Roll of Honour.com
