Herbert Hussey
Private 39772
1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
Division 21
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Herbert Hussey was the son of Mrs H. Hussey of 32, Northumberland Avenue, Reading. He is commemorated on the headstone of the grave of his mothers and sisters, number 16635. Berkshire History Society classification 21G1.
We are told on the caption to his photograph that he died in Aden on his way home from India. Notification of his death was published in the Reading Standard April 5th 1919. Herbert Hussey had served for 3 years 4 months in the Army. Prior to the outbreak of war he had spent several years in France and Germany. He joined up as a volunteer a year after the outbreak of war and belonged to the 1st Garrison Somerset Battalion attached to the Hampshire Regiment. He was sent to France but invalided home in July 1917. He recovered and was sent to India in December 1918 with the Somerset Light Infantry. He started his return home on 24th February 1919 but died on the17th March 1919. He is buried in Maala Cemetery, Yemen. Location G. 6.
By profession Herbert Hussey was a schoolmaster. He had trained at Culham College and taught at for some time at Grovelands school. He was the Assistant organist at All Saint’s Church and organist and choirmaster at St. Georges Church. He was a member of the Choral Society of University College Reading and a well-known concert performer.