Name
Herbert Macrow
18 July 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/12/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3320
London Regiment *1
1st/20th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 130 to 135.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Chiesman's Department Store Roll of Honour, Lewisham (now at Lewisham Museum)
Pre War
Herbert Macrow was born on 18 July 1888 in Eltham, Kent , the youngest son of Benjamin and Maria Macrow. He was baptised on 19 August 1888 at St John the Baptist, Eltham.
He was employed by Mr Narbeth [a draper and milliner] for seven years, subsequently going to Messrs Sainsbury's at Lewisham and afterwards to Messrs Chiesman, before joining up.
On the 1911 Census, he was living with his parents at 13 Sherard Road, Eltham and working as a linoleum layer. He married Ethel Mary Elliot in Eltham on 24 March 1913 and gave his occupation as carpet planner. They had two children, Herbert and Mary.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 12 April 1915 and served with the London Regiment, going to France on 12 August 1915. He took part in the Battle of Loos in September and was killed in action near the Hohenzollern Redoubt on 27 December 1915.
Additional Information
His widow, Ethel Mary received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £1 15s. She also received a pension of 18 s 6d a week from 17 July 1916.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
