Hermon Tostevin
Sergeant 7856 Depot,
Royal Berkshire Regiment
War Plot Division 71 & 72
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Hermon Tostevin was the son of Annie and Charles Henry Tostevin, of 21 Elm Park Road, Reading. He died on November 16th 1917 aged 32. His name is recorded on the screen wall in the War Plot. The cause of death is not known nor full details of his military career. In 1901 Herman, then 16, was an inmate at Kenniston Reform School, Thorndon, Suffolk. Ten years later, in 1911, he was serving with the 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment in India. His occupation is given as soldier and clerk.
Fred Tostevin was the brother of Hermon. Fred served with the Devon Regiment. He was reported missing and later drowned on the HMS Arcadian on 15th April 1917, he was aged 24. His name can be found on the Mikra Memorial in Greece.
Fred Tostevin had work for Huntley Bourne and Stevens for ten years before the war. The 1911 census indicates that an older brother Henry also worked at the tin factory and younger sister Winnifred worked at the Huntley and Palmer’s biscuit factory. (The caption refers to “S” Tostevin)
In Memoriam in the Standard November 16th 1918 stated:
Loving sons, brothers kind,
Beautiful memories left behind.
In 1919:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
From their loving Mother, brothers and sisters.