Name
Herbert Charles Jocelyn
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/06/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
3649
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2nd/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-DU-BACQUEROT NO.1 MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
I. H. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER SERJT.E.JOCELYN KILLED 19TH JULY 1916
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Herbert Charles Jocelyn was born in 1891 in Kensington (Paddington registration district), London, the son of Charles and Ellen Jocelyn, and baptised on 26 January 1898 at All Saints, Notting Hill, where his family lived at 29 Swinbrooke Row [Road] and his father worked as a baker. The family were living at 29 Swinbrooke Road, Kensington in 1901 but by 1911 Herbert had moved out and was working as footman (domestic) at Aldwickbury, Harpenden, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire, where he was living at the time, and served in the 2/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was killed in action and is buried at Rue-due-Bacquerot No. 1 Military Cemetery, Laventie. The headstone inscription includes the name of his brother Ernest who was killed on 19 July 1916 and who has no known grave.
Additional Information
Register of Soldiers' Effects gives surname as Joycelyn. His father Charles received a war gratuity of £9 10s and pay owing of £5 8s 5d. He and his brother joined the same battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
