Blackmore Area Local History

Herbert Game

War Memorial: Place and inscription
St Martin’s Chelsfield, Kent.

Rank:
Sergeant

Regiment:
Essex Regiment. 11^th Battalion.  Service No. 16778  [CWGC]

Service Details:
Born Cockfield, Suffolk.  Lived, Brentwood.  Enlisted, Warley.  Acting Sergeant at time of death [source: Essex Regiment Museum database].

Personal and family information:
Son of Robert and Sarah Ann Game; husband of Alice Louisa Clark (formerly Game), of Melrose, Chelsfield Lane, Green Street Green, Farnborough, Kent. [CWGC]

Uncle of Herbert Charles Game, who also died in the Battle of the Somme but is commemorated on the War Memorial at Blackmore.

Herbert Game married Alice Louisa Symons, aged 25, the daughter of Henry Herbert Symons, a Coast Guard Officer from Falmouth, at Blackmore, on 6^th October 1909. He was 29.  [ERO D/P 266/1/6]. Their son Albert Edward Game was baptised at Blackmore on 11^th September 1910. [ERO D/P 266/1/11].

"In 1913 he was living in Green Lane Cottages, Ongar Road, Brentwood, the birthplace of my Father". [Colin Game, descendent].

“I do not believe he ever actually lived in Farnborough, Kent.  Herbert's wife certainly did live there from about 1915 when she moved from Essex. I think she moved there (at about or after Herbert enlisted) to be with her parents being pregnant at the time with Herbert's last child. Her father was in the Navy and moved around coastguard stations”. [Colin Game, descendent]

Date of Death: 
15^th October 1916

Age:
38

Where died:
Killed in action in France [source: Essex Regiment Museum database].

Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Thiepval Memorial.  Pier and Face 10 D. [CWGC]

List of Sources: 
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Regiment Museum, Essex Record Office, Colin Game a descendent of the person commemorated.