Name
Herbert Walter Carr
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14555
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AVESNES-LE-COMTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. A. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
"DEATH DIVIDES LOVE AND SWEET MEMORY CLING"
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial, St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Ind Plaque, St Augustine's Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial
Pre War
Herbert Walter CARR was born in Hoddesdon/Broxbourne,
Hertfordshire, 1895, the birth was registered in Ware, Herts, son of Charles
Elias Carr, a Coachman and Ellen Mary Carr, (nee Strange). The eldest of the seven
surviving children, although three died in childhood.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 5, living with his parents,
at his widowed grandmother Eliza Carr’s home at, 6 The Avenue, Hoddesdon,
Herts, (a Grocers shop where his grandmother was the shopkeeper).
1911 Census, Herbert (16) is working as a Domestic Gardener,
living with his parents, brothers Cyril (5) and Ernest Roland (3) in Spitalbrook,
Broxbourne, Herts. The family had a boarder John Dilly a Carman.
Wartime Service
Herbert travelled to the County Town of Hertford, to
enlisted, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment and issued with the service
number 14555. On completion of his training, he was sent to France arriving on
the 9th April 1915. Seeing action on the Western Front Herbert was
wounded in action and admitted to No. 37 Casualty Clearing Station, at Avesnes,
where he died on 3rd July 1916, aged 21, he is buried in the
Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery, France. Grave Ref: III. A. 8.
Additional Information
His mother Ellen received a Dependents Pension of 5/- a week
from 10th April 1917, and his effects of £2-16-08, pay owing and his
war gratuity of £8-10-00.
His Headstone inscription “DEATH DIVIDES LOVE SWEET MEMORY
CLING” was requested by Mrs, E. Carr, of Spital Brook Hill, Broxbourne, Herts.
(His mother).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Richard Barber
