Name
Gilbert Carlyle Mason Prince
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/08/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265686
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
"C" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MEAULTE MILITARY CEMETERY
G. 40.
France
Headstone Inscription
THE BELOVED SON OF GEO. & F. PRINCE FRINTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX, HE YET LIVETH
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead Memorials
Pre War
Gilbert Carlyle Mason Prince was born on 6 March 1898 in Willesden, Middx, the son of George and Flora Prince. On the 1901 Census the family were living at 40 Ashburnham Road, Willesden, where his father was working as an Undertaker's Clerk. His father remained in the same occupation on the 1911 Census, but they had moved to Hazlemere, Love Lane, Pinner, Middx, and Gilbert was a 13 year old scholar.
He worked as a clerk for the London County & Westminster Bank at their Hemel Hempstead branch prior to enlistment.
His parents later lived at Clacton on Sea, Essex.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, Herts and served with the 6th Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment.
He was killed in action on 24 August 1918, age 20, when the battalion were in position near Meaulte, Somme. He is buried at Meaulte Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father, G J Prince Esq, The Homestead, Southcliff Park, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, ordered his headstone inscription: "THE BELOVED SON OF GEO. & F. PRINCE FRINTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX, HE YET LIVETH". His father received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £9 13s.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.natwestgroupremembers.com
