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Elizabeth Holliday

Registered War Grave, RFC / RAF

Elizabeth Holliday
864. 73rd Wing
Woman’s Royal Air Force

Division 41

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Elizabeth Price was the daughter of Charles H.Holliday, of 21, Valentia Road, Oxford Road Reading.   She died at  the Royal Berkshire Hospital according to the Standard 29th May 1919.  She was aged 23.

The author has been unable to find out any more information other than that given in the CWGC register.

Elizabeth died on the 13th March 1919 and her name is commemorated on a  CWGC war pattern headstone on the family grave in Division 41, grave number 11967.

According to the 1911 census Charles worked on the corporation trams. The family was quite large and Elizabeth was working as a second housemaid in Hastings in 1911. It is believed that other members of the extended family lived a few doors away at 17 Valentia Road.

Kenneth John Hinde

Australian, Commemorated name/s, Dardanelles

Kenneth John Hinde
Second Lieutenant
3rd Battalion Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Division 68
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Kenneth John Hinde, was the son of Surgeon Major General George Langford Hinde, C.B. and Frances Mary Crawford Hinde.  He was a native of Dover. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 8. 

Casualty Record Detail

 

Kenneth Hinde died on 15th May 1915 on board H.M. Transport ’Gloucester Castle’, of wounds received in the head during fighting in Gallipoli.  He was buried at sea near Alexandria.  He is commemorated on his parents’ grave in Reading Cemetery.  Berkshire Family History Society classification 68C26 and on the Lone Pine Memorial, panel 19.

 The Lone Pine Memorial at the end of the Lone Pine Cemetery is inscribed with the following words.

Casualty Record Detail

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LASTING MEMORIAL OF 3,268 AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT ON GALLIPOLI IN 1915 AND HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE, AND 456 NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT RECORDED IN OTHER AREAS OF THE PENINSULA BUT WHO FELL IN THE ANZAC AREA AND HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVES; AND ALSO 960 AUSTRALIANS AND 252 NEW ZEALANDERS WHO, FIGHTING ON GALLIPOLI IN 1915, INCURRED MORTAL WOUNDS OR SICKNESS AND FOUND BURIAL AT SEA.

William Thomas Herbert

Army, Commemorated name/s, Passchendaele, Royal Berkshire Regiment

William Thomas Herbert
Private 22047
2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment

 Division 7

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William Thomas Herbert is remembered on the family grave. The Berkshire Family History Society classification number is 7110.  He was the son of William and Jane Maria Herbert.  The 1911 census indicates that he was a labourer in the brewery. His mother had been a widow for more than ten years, her occupation is given as charwoman at the brewery. At the time the family comprised William’s older sister and two cousins. The family lived at 8 Orchard Street.

William Thomas Herbert is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery, Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave location IV.B.14. He died on the 4th August 1917 and was aged 30.  The 3rd Battle of Ypres began on the 31st July 1917, William Herbert was  wounded during that battle.  Brandhoek was comparatively safe from shell fire during the war.  Field ambulances were posted there and during 3rd Ypres it was the site of various Clearing Stations.  The New Military Cemetery was opened to cope with the large number of casualties from that battle.  Also buried in the cemetery is Captain Noel Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, one of only three men who won the Victoria Cross twice.