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To the immortal glory of the
men of this village who fell in the Great War
1914-1918
Pte Geo Hobbs 8th Beds Regt
Pte Fredk C Andrews 2nd Middx Regt
Pte Ernest C Bransome 2nd Ox and Bucks L I
Cnr David Taylor RFA
and to
Pte Wm T Herbert 11th Royal Warwicks Regt
who, invalided out of the army on account of
wounds etc, came home and died
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Private William Thomas
Herbert's grave is in the churchyard at Clifton
Reynes. The exact location of his grave is
unknown, so a special memorial gravestone has
been placed by the CWGC. At the top of this
stone are the words, "Buried elsewhere in this
churchyard".
He enlisted on 15 March 1916
and was discharged on 22 January 1918 at
Nottingham, receiving the silver war badge. He
died on 15 July 1918, aged 29.
Private Herbert served in the
3rd Royal Warwickshire regiment before being
transferred to the Labour Corps, the body
inscribed on the special memorial. On discharge
he was described as a farm labourer, 5 feet ten
inches tall, with dark hair and brown eyes. He
had become ill with pulmonary tuberculosis on 27
October 1917 near Ypres. The illness was
attributed to infection while on active service.
He had also received shrapnel wounds to his
right hand while on the Somme in 1916, rendering
him unable to bend his third, fourth, and fifth
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NEWTON BLOSSOMVILLE