BORN HULL 1889. HULL PAL. SON OF JOHN HENRY & SOPHIA ANN HERRING. LEFT BROTHERS GEORGE, STANLEY & ARTHUR. HIS WIFE MRS CLARA HERRING, LIVED 16 ALFRED’S TERRACE, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL. HE WORKED AS A COOPER AT THE BRITISH OIL & CAKE MILLS, HULL. HE ENLISTED OCTOBER 1914 AND HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN THE THIGH ON THE 15TH NOVEMBER, AFTER VOLUNTEERING AS A STRETCHER BEARER. HE WAS MENDING NICELY, BUT HAD A RELAPSE RESULTING IN HIS RIGHT LEG BEING AMPUTATED. HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON THE 13TH DECEMBER 1916, AGED 27. HE IS RECORDED ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND STREET ROH. HIS BROTHER IN LAW, PTE. J BLACKIE, KOSB, HAD BEEN KILLED A FEW DAYS EARLIER. CHAS HERRING WAS DESCRIBED AS “VERY BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL” PERSON. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 2ND JANUARY 1917. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES ALBERT HERRING 11/1031. Born in 1889, Charles was the second of four sons to John and Sophia Herring of 27 Richmond Terrace, Waterloo Street, Hull. He married Clara Blackie in January 1913. A Cooper by trade, Charles attested at City Hall joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. After serving in Egypt the Pals landed at Marseilles on March 8th 1916 and headed north for the trenches of the Western Front. Seriously injured during the Somme campaign, he was evacuated to the hospital centre at Etaples but never recovered. He died of wounds on 13th December 1916, and is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery; Charles was 27 years old. Clara Herring never remarried and died young herself, in December 1918.
