No.PO/10169, Private, Frederick Daniel HERBERT
Aged 35
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Born on 10th October 1879 in Bury St.Edmunds (4th qtr 4a:585) son of Nicholas Prynn and Jane HERBERT (née AVIS). Baptised at St.Mary's Bury St.
Edmunds on 27th May 1881
1881 census...Aged 1, he was at 29 Church Walk, Bury St.Edmunds with his father Nicholas P HERBERT [26] carpenter born Bury St Edmunds; his mother Jane [29] born Bury St Edmunds; sister Hannah M [4] born Bury St.Edmunds and brother Charles [3] born Wolverhampton. 1891 census...Aged 11, he was at 29 Church Walk, Bury St.Edmunds with his father Nicholas P. HERBERT [36] carpenter; his mother Jane [39]; sister Minnie [15] staymaker; brothers Charles [13] errand boy born Wolverhampton, Staffs, Alfred [9], Frank [8], Sidney [5] and Tom [3] His mother died in 1891 1901 census...Aged 21, he had joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry and was a patient in the Royal Naval Hospital, Alverstoke. His widower father was at 35 Hospital Road, Bury St.Edmunds with his sister Minnie (housekeeper); brothers Sidney (greengrocer's assistant) and Thomas (school) 1911 census...Aged 31 he was a Private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry aboard HMS Minotaur, a cruiser, in Hong Kong. His father had re-married to Eliza CROW and was at 120 Eastgate Street, Bury St.Edmunds with his wife Eliza [44] factory hand born Feltwell and her children Ethel CROW [17] factory hand, Maud CROW [16] factory hand, both born in Lakenheath, and Edith Ellen CROW [15] school born Brandon. His younger brother Alfred Richard died in April 1917 see here |
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He enlisted in London on 24th January 1899, a farm labourer, born in Bury St.Edmunds, 5 feet 5.5 inches tall, C of E. When re-engaging on 14th Oct. 1910, next of kin brother Charles
of Hospital Road, Bury St Edmunds. He joined "HMS Good Hope" on 23rd December 1912. He had been awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy (completed 1901); she was originally named "Africa", but was renamed before she was launched. She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1908. She was reduced to reserve in 1913, but was recommissioned in mid-1914. Her main armament consisted of two breech-loading 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk X guns in single gun turrets, one each fore and aft of the superstructure. Her secondary armament of sixteen BL 6-inch Mk VII guns was arranged in casemates amidships. Eight of these were mounted on the main deck and were only usable in calm weather. When war was declared in August 1914, Good Hope was ordered to reinforce the 4th Cruiser Squadron and became the flagship of Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock. Cradock moved the available ships of his squadron later that month to the coast of South America to search for German commerce raiders. He was then ordered further south to the Strait of Magellan to block any attempt of the German East Asia Squadron to penetrate into the South Atlantic. He found the German squadron on 1 November off the coast of Chile. The German squadron outnumbered Cradock's force and were individually more powerful; they sank Cradock's two armoured cruisers in the Battle of Coronel. Good Hope was lost with all hands.
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