Name
John Shambrook
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/02/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/19677
Queen's Own (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
IV D26
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt
Pre War
John Shambrook was born in late 1887, in Cheshunt,
Hertfordshire, son of Anthony Shambrook a Market Garden Labourer and Susan
Shambrook (nee South). One of five children.
Baptised on 18th December 1887, at St James
Church, Goffs Oak, Herts. At the time the family lived in St James Road, Goffs
Oak, Herts.
1891 Census records John aged 3, living with his parents,
brother Alfred (6) and sister Daisy (1) in St James Road, Goffs Oak, Herts.
1901 Census records John aged 13, working as an Agricultural
Labourer living with his father Anthony still at St James Road.
John married Christina Pedder, the daughter of Reubens and
Susan Pedder, on 1st August 1908, in the Parish Church, Cheshunt,
Herts.
1911 census records John (23), married to Christina, working
as a Labourer they have no children, their address is given as Hammond Street,
Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
John enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, on 11th January
1916, posted to the Army Reserve the same day. Mobilized for war service on 17th
April 1917, and posted to the Suffolk Regiment on 19th April 1917,
with the service number 45377. On completion of his training, he arrived in
France on 28th June 1917, with the Suffolk Regiment. He was
transferred to the “Queens Own” (Royal West Kent Regiment) on 21st
July 1917, with the service number 19677. seeing action on the Western Front.
John died on 5th February 1918, at No. 5 Casualty Clearing Station,
Tincourt, France, of multiple gunshot wounds, received in action, aged 31.
He is buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery in France.
Grave Ref: IV. D. 26.
Additional Information
Christina received a widow’s pension of 13/9 a week from 19th
August 1918, her address at the time was 2 Woodside Cottages, Longfield Lane,
Cheshunt, Herts, and his effects of £5.18s.8d, pay owing and his war gratuity
of £3.
His Younger brother Lance Corporal 3574 William Richard
Shambrook MM, was killed in action on 15th September 1916, aged 23. Elder
brother Private 8364 Alfred Shambrook died on 6th January 1919, from
the effects of Gas Poisoning received while on active service.
His service record is available on-line.
In June 1997 Broxbourne Borough Council received a suggestion from the Chairman of Goffs Oak Community Association to name roads to commemorate the who lost lives in the two world wars who are displayed on the Goffs Oak Memorial. It was decided that those names should be used for the large development in Hammondstreet Road, this soldier has one of the surnames chosen: Shambrook Road - the reason for the names selected (as opposed to others is not known.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
