Name
Herbert John Cordwell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24522
Reserve Cavalry Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY
CE. 635.
Republic of Ireland
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Herbert John Cordwell was born Northaw, Potters Bar in 1878 to John Cordwell, labourer, and Mary Anne (nee Newnham).
On the 1881 Census the family of parents, Ezze (born 1868), Ellen (born 1870), Harry (born 1872), Keily (born 1874), Annie (born 1876), Herbert and Gracey (born 18800 were living at 8, Station Road, South Mimms.
On the 1891 Census Herbert was working as a page boy and living with the Barge family at Salisbury House in South Mimms.
Herbert enlist in the Militia on 11 Mar 1890 as Private 3111 in the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. He was embodied for Regular Service in the Regiment on 11 Jul 1895 and transferred to 4th (Queens Own) Hussars as Private 356 on 1 Dec 1895 completing service of 12 years and being discharged on 15 Jul 1907.
Herbert married Ellen Currell on 24 Apr 1909 at Bishops Hatfield, Middx.
On the 1911 Census Herbert, Ellen and daughter Beatrice (born 24 Jul 1909) were living at High Road, South Mimms. There would be further children Leslie Herbert John (born 27 Jul 1911) and Minnie (born 30 Oct 1912)
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Herbert, He likely was enlisted in 1915 as Private 24522, 4th (Queens Own) Hussars and was posted to 10th Reserve Regiment of Cavalry, stationed at the Curragh, Ireland.
This Reserve Regiment trained men for a number of Regiments mainly Hussars. The Easter Rising took place in 1916 (24 – 29 Apr) in Ireland and it is highly likely that being stationed at the Curragh Herbert would a member of the forces sent to Dublin to disperse the rising.
Herbert was reported killed in action on 24 Apr 1916. His remains were interred in Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Dublin. He was ineligible for Service Medals as he served in the UK.
Additional Information
No war Gratuity was awarded as his service was only in UK but his arrears of £2 3 s 10d was paid to his widow who also received a pension for Herself and their children.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
