Name
Herbert Charles Cornhill
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1918
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
267924
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRISTOL (ARNOS VALE) CEMETERY
Screen Wall. 6. 718.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial,
St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1881 in Broxbourne son of James and Harriet Cornhill and living in Spital Brook, Hoddesdon in 1901 and in High Road, Broxbourne in 1911 with his wife Jessie. He was a groom gardener. Jessie died in 1916 and he then married Margaret Ann Craigie in Warwick (later living in 55, Alma Road, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia).
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Coventry, Warwickshire Private 6716 when living in 12 Wallace Street, Warwick on 6 Dec 1915, entered France via Southampton on 26 Apr 1917 and joined his battalion on 14 May. He sustained a gunshot wound to the left arm in action on 8 Jun 1917 and returned to England on 26 Jun 1917. He then returned to France on 14 Dec 1917 and was wounded in action again on 30 Aug 1918. He returned to England on 6 Apr and died of acute septicaemia in the Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol.
Additional Information
Brother of Private William Cornhill who died of wounds on 29 Mar 1918 and of Private Arthur John Cornhill who was killed in action on 18 Nov 1916 and who are also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Richard Barber
