Herbert Jesse Niblett
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Medals: 1914 Star and Clasp, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Serjeant 44376
Parents: Samuel and Georgina Harriett (nee Bowley) Niblett
Marital status: Single
Home address: Main Street, Hawkesbury Upton
Pre-war occupation: Serving in the army
Date of birth: 1888
Place of birth: Hawkesbury Upton
Date of death: 21/06/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: La Targette British Cemetery, Neuville-St-Vaast, France
Age: 29
Further information:
Herbert Jesse Niblett lived on the High Street in Hawkesbury Upton. On the 1911 Census, Herbert is serving as a Gunner/Wheeler attached to the 69th Battery RFA. They were stationed in Jabalpur, India. He had been a regular soldier before the war and had served for a number of years in India. Recalled in 1914, Herbert fought at Mons and in the famous artillery battle at Le Cateau.
Herbert served with the 122st Battery, 27th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Over the coming years he would fight at Ypres in 1915 and on the Somme in 1916. 1917 would see him fighting in the battle for Vimy Ridge. On the evening of Thursday 21st June 1917, the battery was strafed by German shell fire and Serjeant Herbert Niblett was mortally wounded and died later the same day.
Herbert Jesse Niblett is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry.
Forces War Records.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis.