Name
Herbert Walter Oakman
8/02/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266761
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Cheshunt Town Memorial, Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Herbert Walter Oakman was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, on 8th February 1898, son of David Henry Oakman a, Cattleman, and Annie Elizabeth (nee Gladwin) Oakman. One of thirteen children although three died in infancy.
He was Baptised at Jesus Church, Enfield, Middx, in November 1898.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 3, living with his parents, three brothers and sister Emily (7) at, 7 Baker Street, Cromwell Terrace, Enfield, Middx.
1911 Census records Herbert aged 13, at school and a Newsboy, living with his parents, three brothers and three sisters at, 22 Melbourne Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Wartime Service
Herbert travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist in July 1915, posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 5263 (later 266761).
On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front. Herbert was Killed in Action on 31 July 1917, at St Julian, during the Battle of Pilkem Ridge, (31st July – 2nd August 1917). The Battalion sustained very heavy casualties on that day. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Annie Oakman received a dependents pension of 3/6 a week from 26th March 1918, for life.
His effects of £1-05-05, pay owing and his war gratuity of £9, went to his father David Oakman.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
