Herbert Charles Gray

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Herbert Charles Gray was born in Ashmore, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 29 Aug 1899 and baptised there on 12 Nov 1899 the son of Charles Gray and Elizabeth Ann Gray (nee Taylor).  He spent all his life, apart from Military Service, in Ashmore, Shaftesbury, Dorset.   In 1911 he was living at High Street, Ashmore.   According to the Absent Voters List of 1918 he was serving with the 17th Squadron of the Machine Gun Corps as a Private (Service No. 96213) except that by the 1921 census he was still serving in the army and based at the barracks in Ludd, Palestine, (Israel).  He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals which record also indicates that he had originally served under the name of Charles Herbert Gray with the Dorset (Queen's Own) Yeomanry (Service No. 1378) before transferring to the MGC.  He married Marjorie F. Uphill in Sherborne, Dorset, in 1925.   By the time of the 1939 Register he was living at Mullins, Noad Street, Ashmore, working as a Builders Labourer.  No record of his death has been found to date.

Herbert's brother Gordon James (b.1895) also served in the war, with the Coldstream Guards.