Herbert Garrod

A Private with the 8th Battalion, Herbert died on 19th of May 1917 at the age of 27. 

Herbert was born at Calton Colville in 1890, a son of John and Elizabeth Garrod. Herbert was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Carlton Colville, on 1 May 1891, and his family lived at Lowestoft Road, Carlton Colville. In 1901 the family lived ‘near Low Farm’, Carlton Colville, and by 1911 at Hall Cottages Carlton Colville, and Herbert worked as a cowman on a farm. 

Herbert volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft in 1914. He served with the Suffolk Regiment, service number 14163. He was posted to the 8th Battalion and arrived in France with the battalion on 25 July 1915. 

Herbert was awarded the Military Medal and this was announced in the London Gazette of 21 December 1916.

On 18 May 1917 the 8th Battalion moved into the Hindenburg Support Trenches. No precise details of what happened to Herbert can be traced, other than the fact that he was killed in action on 19 May 1917.   

Herbert’s brother-in-law, William Ernest Porter, served in the Royal Engineers and died in 1917.