Name
Charles Herbert Perrin Osborne
11 Dec 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
240589
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial(s), Hockerill
Pre War
Herbert Charles Perrin Osborne was born on 11 Dec 1892 in Hockerill, Bishops Stortford to Abner Osborne, a gardener domestic, and Emma (nee Perrin). He was baptised as Charles Herbert Perrin on 26 Mar 1893 at All Saints, Hockerill, Herts. His elder sisters Edith May was born in 1880 and Violet Hilda was born in 1882.
On the 1901 Census Herbert was living with his parents and sister Daisy Elizabeth (born 1886) at Plawhatch, Dunmow Road, Hockerill All Saints, Bishop's Stortford.
In 1911 he was living as a boarder at the Bothy, Hallingbury Place, Great Hallingbury, Essex and working as a gardener domestic. His parents were living at gardener’s Cottage, Plawhatch, Daisy was working as the cook at Plawhatch.
Wartime Service
No Service Records were found for Herbert. He enlisted in Birmingham as a Territorial Force Soldier as Private 2683 with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, possibly around Sep 1914 (Service Number 2651 was allocated on 2 Sep 1914) and following his training was posted to 1/6 Battalion, which had been in France from Mar 1915.
The Battalion became part of 143 Brigade 48 (South Midland) Division and on the 1 Jul 1916 were holding the line between 56 (London) Division, attacking the Gommecourt Salient and 31 Division attacking at Serre. 1/8 Battalion attacked the Quadrilateral (Heidenkopf) redoubt on the 1 Jul and were successful, partly because it was deemed untenable by the Germans but 1/6 Battalion, who were to follow up 10 minutes behind 1/6, were caught in the German counter barrage suffering heavy casualties. Herbert was posted Missing during this attack and his death presumed to be 1 Jul 1916. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. Herbert’s number of 240589 relates to the Territorial Force renumbering of 1917.
Additional Information
His father received a War Gratuity of £8 and arrears of £2 0s 3d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week from 6 November 1918 but died in 1920.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
