| Surname: |
Precious |
| Initials/Name: |
Herbert |
| Country of Service: |
UK |
| Rank: |
Private |
| Regiment: |
Suffolk Regiment |
| Unit: |
15th |
| Service No: |
40341 |
| Age: |
31 |
| Date of Death |
05/09/1918 |
| How died: |
Killed in Action |
| Awards: |
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| Cemetery: |
Vis-En-Artois Memorial |
| Country: |
France |
| Grave Reference: |
Panel 4 |
| Local Memorials: |
Stock and
St. Mary's Buttsbury |
| Address: |
Husband of Mildred Agnes Precious 3 Chadwell Heath Lane Chadwell Heath |
| CWGC Page: |
Herbert Precious |
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| Herbert was
one of four brothers who went to war, they were Frank, Bertam and William.
Herbert and William did not return. In addition there was a sister Clara who
was 40 when her brother died. |
| Herbert was
origianlly enlisted in Poplar to join the Essex Regiment, but transferred to
the 15th Battalion Suffolk Regimentas a Private. He was killed in action 5th
September 1918 and is remembered on the Vis en Artois memorial. This Memorial
bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to
the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois,
between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave. |
| When Herbert
died he left a wife, Mildred Agnes, who lived in Chadwell Heath Essex. |
| Updated
24.08.2024 |