Herbert M C N Lt 1st Gloucestershire Regiment
LIEUTENANT M. C. N. HERBERT
IST BATTALION THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
MALCOM CAVAGNARI NORTON HERBERT was the only son of Brigadier-General Lionel Norton Herbert and Ida Louisa his wife, of Hove, Sussex,
He entered the School in 1909 and left in 1910.
He passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in February, 1914, and was gazetted to the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in the following August. He was promoted Lieutenant and went to the Front in November, 1914.
He was mortally wounded in the advance trenches at Festubert whilst in command of a platoon, on December 22nd, and died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Lilliers, France, on January 2nd, 1915. Age 20.
The Officer Commanding the Regiment wrote:-
“He always was so keen and energetic, so promising, and much liked by his men.”
And a friend wrote:-
“He was very keen to do something for the honour of his old School, and his dying message home was, ‘Tell my people that I tried to do my duty.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1