Name
Charles James Herring
15 April 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
200660
Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panels 105 to 106 and 192.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Langleybury Village Memorial, Hunton Bridge
Pre War
Charles James Herring was born on 15 April 1883 in the Watford Registration district, the the son of Charles and Emma Herring (nee Cremer).
His parents had married on 31 August 1880 at All Saints, Knightsbridge, London. His mother died on 8 May 1897 in Watford, aged 42, and was buried on 12 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
He first attended Beechen Grove Infants’ School, Watford; then St Andrew’s Boys’ School, Watford, from 27 January 1890, followed by Callowland Board School, Watford, from 6 January 1896 to 12 July 1899.
On the 1891 Census, aged 7 he was living with his parents and siblings Frank, Cecil, May and Ernest, at The Stables, Clarendon Park, nr Hunton Bridge, Watford where his father was working as a groom/coachman. By the 1901 Census, Charles was a groom aged 17, living in the St George Hanover Square, London, area and remained in Middlesex in 1911, then living in Old Southgate, Middlesex and working as a chauffeur.
His father later lived at Cotehele House Stables, St Dominic, Cornwall and died on 1 April 1929 in the Tavistock, Devon, district aged 76, and was buried at St Dominic, Cornwall.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in Reading, Berks and joined the 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire (Princess Charlotte of Wales') Regiment, serving in France from 30 March 1915.
He was killed in action on 16 August 1917, aged 34, but has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £ 5 15s 7d. He also received a pension of 12 shillings a week.
His brother George served with the Coldstream Guards and died on 22 July 1916. He is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium and is also listed on the Watford Roll of Honour and Langleybury Village Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
