Herbert lived
in Billericay, lived in Ramsden Heath and enlisted in the Essex Regt (9th Batt)
at Chelmsford and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He died of wounds received on
the Western Front 24th August 1918 and is buried at Daours communal military
extension.
The Allied advance in the spring of 1917 took the hospitals with
it, and no further burials were made in the cemetery until April 1918, when the
Germans recovered the ground they had lost. From April to the middle of August
1918, the extension was almost a front line cemetery. In August and September
1918, the casualty clearing stations came forward again (the 5th, 37th, 41st,
53rd, 55th and 61st) but in September, the cemetery was closed. There are now
1,231 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension. |