Name
Herbert Clanfield Costar
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/04/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
93835
Royal Field Artillery
5th "C" (Reserve) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIVERPOOL (KIRKDALE) CEMETERY
Screen Wall. IV. C. E. 21.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt Memorials, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials, Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery
Pre War
Herbert Clanfield COSTER was born in 1888, in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, son of John George Costar a Coffee Buyer and Emma Coster (nee Palmer). The youngest of three children.
Herbert was Baptised on 18th November 1888, in the Parish of Waltham Cross, Herts.
1901 Census records Herbert aged 3, living with his parents, sister Maud (10), and brother Reginald (7), in, Waltham Lane, Cheshunt, Herts. The family had a live in Domestic Servant.
Brother Reginald died in 1905, aged 21 and his father John died in 1909 aged 55.
1911 Census records Herbert aged 23, living with his widowed mother in North Moreton, Berks & Oxon. No occupation was given for Herbert. They had a live in Domestic Servant.
His mother Emma died in late 1913, aged 58, the death was Registered in Chelsea, London.
Wartime Service
Herbert enlisted in London, posted to the Royal Field Artillery and issued with the service number 93835. On completion of his training Herbert arrived in France on 30th May 1915. Seeing action on the Western Front, he was wounded and sent back to England, he died on 13th April 1917 at Winsor Street Military Hospital, Toxteth, Liverpool, aged 29.
He is buried in Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery.
Additional Information
His effects of £24-08s-01d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £12, went to his sister Maud (Mrs. Maud Mary Langford).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
