Name
Herbert James Rance
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T4/041267
Army Service Corps
4th Coy. Guards Div. Train
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
VI. B. 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Herbert James Rance was born in 1884 in Berkhamsted, Herts, the grandson of John and Charlotte Rance.
On the 1891 Census he was living with his grandparents at Bank Mill, Berkhamsted where his grandfather was working as a gardener's labourer.
By 1911 he was living with his widowed aunt, Antonia Rance and her three daughters at 84 Ellesmere Road, Sunnyside, Berkhamsted, and was working as a coal carter. At the time of enlistment he was an employee of Berkhamsted Urban District Council.
He married Emma Chilton on 13 August 1911 at Great Berkhamsted and they lived at 65 George Street, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and joined the Army Service Corps, serving in France with the 4th Company as a Driver from 22 August 1915.
He was killed action on 21 March 1918 by shell fire in France and is buried at Faubourg D-Amiens Cemetery, Arras.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £14 10s and pay owing of £20 8s 7d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.roll-of-honour.com
