Name
Herbert William Davey
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/01/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
48570
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
2nd/10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
F.143
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford, Not on the Wormley memorials
Pre War
Herbert William Davey was born in Hildersham, Cambridgeshire, in 1879, son of Samuel George Davey a, Domestic Gardener and Groom and Phoebe Davey (nee Ellis). One of 15 Children although four died in infancy.
1881 Census records Herbert aged 1, living with his parents and four siblings at, 1 Village Street, Hildersham, Cambs.
1891 Census, Herbert (12), is at school, living with his parents and six siblings at, Street, Hildersham, Cambs.
1901 Census, Herbert (21), is employed as a Nursery Market Gardener, Lodging with, Edward and Charlotte Smith at, 20 Turnford Villas, Cheshunt Herts.
Herbert Married Elizabeth Emma Barnard of, Turnford, Herts, the daughter of Daniel and Rosena Barnard, on 30th December 1905, in Cheshunt, Herts, they went on to have two sons, Herbert George William Davey, born in 1912 and Cecil John Davey, born in 1916.
1911 Census records Herbert as married to Elizabeth and employed as a Market Gardener: living at 3 Turnford Hall Cottages, Nr. Broxbourne, Herts. Elizabeth’s widowed mother Rosena Barnard is living with them.
Elizabeth died in 1919, aged 35. Son Herbert George William Driver was brought up by his fathers sister and her husband Laura and Arthur Rash. Cecil John Driver was brought up by his fathers other sister and her husband Ester and Charles Parker.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted at Bedford, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 31430, later transferred to the 2nd/10th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge Own (Middlesex Regiment) with the service number 48570.
Herbert died on 23rd January 1918, of Dysentery contracted while on active service in Egypt. He is buried in the CWGC Kantara War Graves Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.
Additional Information
His effects of £10-9s-9d, Pay Owing went to his widow Elizabeth and the Children, his War Gratuity of £6, was divided equally between his sisters Ester E. Parker and Laura L. Rash. During World War II, his son Herbert George William Davey, of the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment was taken a Prisoner of War (POW) on 15th February 1942, when Singapore surrendered to the Japanese.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brenda Palmer
