Name
Herbert Solomon Kitchener
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1920
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
45687
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
A. 13. 18.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Herbert Solomon Kitchener was born in 1887 in Bishop's Stortford to Solomon and Rosetta Kitchener and baptised on 8 July 1888 at Saffron Walden, Essex. His father died in 1899 and on the 1911 Census he was living at 20 Bells Hill, Bishop's Stortford with his widowed mother and siblings and working as a Grocery Assistant. He married Margaret May Revell on 8 October 1916 at the Register Office, Bishop's Stortford. They had a son, Herbert Solomon, on 17 February 1917 and later a daughter Dorothy May in June 1919. Prior to enlistment he had worked for Benskins Brewery, Watford as a horsekeeper. On discharge his home address was given as 45 Castle Street, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He had been rejected twice for the Army but was finally accepted and enlisted 19 April 1917 and was sent to Egypt on 13 July 17. Whilst in Egypt he suffered from diarrhoea and tonsillitis. He was finally diagnosed with TB after having a cough for two years and was discharged on 15 September 1918 as no longer fit for war service. He received a weekly pension of 27/6 for four weeks from 16.9.18 then 22 shillings a week which was to be reviewed. He also received a Silver War Badge No. 449391.
Additional Information
Date of death differs with CWGC stating 3 May and pension records stating 5 May 1920.
His widow received a widow's pension of £1 6s 8d and a children's allowance of 17s 6d a week from 5 May 1920. He had two sisters, Agnes Chappell and Ethel Livermore and a brother George Kitchener, who all lived in Bishop's Stortford. His mother Rosetta married Ephraim Horsley in 1916 and lived at 23 Oak Street, Bishop's Stortford.
His wife, Mrs M M KItchener, 45 Castle Street, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, ordered his headstone inscription: "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
