HERBERT, Charles
| Service Number: | 6071 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Steeple Gidding, Huntingdonshire, England., 24 March 1887 |
| Home Town: | Cootamundra, Cootamundra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hamerton and Denton, Huntingdon |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 9 October 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Grave VII. B. 38. INSCRIPTION REST ETERNAL GRANT UNTO HIM O LORD , Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6071, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
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| 31 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6071, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 30 and the eldest son of Thomas Herbert,[farmer] of Denton Lodge, Stilton, Huntingdonshire, (later of Great Raveley) and his wife, Martha, [daughter of Thomas Wilson]; and brother of Private Albert Herbert and Shoeing Smith Reginald Herbert both of whom also fell while serving with British forces.
He emigrated to Australia in February 1913.
He enlisted 9th October 1916.
He served with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 25th March, 1917; and was killed in action at Passchendaele Ridge 9th Oct, 1917, exactly one year after enlistment.
His Platoon officer wrote: "I came into very close contact with him, and I valued him very highly indeed as a soldier and as a man. As a matter of fact, I had noted him for early promotion, and his loss to me will be hard to make good. He had always impressed me with his splendid personality, and his gentlemanly conduct on all occasions............ He was one of the best, more than that I cannot say."
The three brothers are remembered on the War Memorial Plaque in Stilton church-Stilton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, about 12 miles north of Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as a historic county of England. The village gave its name to Stilton cheese. Previously the most widely accepted explanation was that the cheese came down to be sold at the coaching inns in Stilton. Daniel Defoe in 1722 described the village as famous for its cheese. Traditionally it was thought that supplies were obtained from the housekeeper at Quenby Hall, Hungarton, Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray, and were sold via her brother-in-law to travellers in Stilton's coaching inns, namely the Bell Inn or the Angel Inn. Subsequent research has led to claims that the cheese did originate in the village in the late 17th or early 18th centuries, before any contemporary references to its production in Leicestershire.
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