HERBERT+GAUNT

Gaunt, Herbert, Corporal, 27734, 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment Born Kilburn Enlisted Derby Died of wounds 1st January 1919

C Company Aged 24 Son of Herbert Henry and Martha Ann Gaunt, of 1, Cavendish St., Old Whittington, Chesterfield. Buried in Horsley (St. Clement) Churchyard, Derbyshire

1911 Census: Herbert Gaunt was a 16 year old coal miner and haulage clipper, residing at Rawson Green, Kilburn. He was the nephew of Charlotte Gaunt.

Service record: Resided Station Street, Kilburn Employed as a collier Enlisted 23rd January 1915 Next of kin, his sister, Mrs. Piggott, of Laburnum Cottage, Station Street, Kilburn. Served abroad in France from the 4th November 1916 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Treated in hospital 9th - 24th July 1918 for malaria <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Received shell wounds to the right forearm, 27th August 1918 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Sent to England for treatment 9th December 1918 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Died from from the effects of having his right arm amputated at Heald Place Kirby Hospital. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Personal effects sent to his father: a Dorothy bag, two writing pads, three pencils, three toothbrushes, two combs, two tins of tooth powder, a mirror, a razor, shaving brush, two discs, a waterproof bag, a card, two religious books