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Herbert Arthur Tennyson Ashbridge was born in Beverley the 7 Jun 1885 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 8 Jul 1885, the son of John Edward Needham Ashbridge, an agricultural labourer born in Catwick in 1857 and Elizabeth Ann (nee Pinching) born in 1855 in Norfolk, married in 1877. Herbert had 6 siblings; Benjamin, Walter, Charles, Percy, Lavinia and Kate. The family originally lived in Molescroft, later living at 27 Lairgate and Hind’s Yard, Keldgate, Beverley. Herbert’s father died in 1894 and in 1897 his mother married Mathew Henry Baildom, born in 1856 at Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, a shepherd and farm worker. They moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire and later to Stancil and Bawtry near Doncaster. The family continued to be divided between Beverley and that area. In 1901 Herbert was a publican’s errand boy, he later became a general labourer.
On 9 Jun 1912 Herbert married Elsie M Parker at Beverley Minster, they had three children, Elsie died aged 23 in 1916. Herbert married Ethel Smith at Rowley Parish Church on 19 Nov 1921, they had five children together.
Herbert served in the TA before the war and on 9 Oct 1914 joined the 5th (Home Service) Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. He was promoted to the rank of Corporal in 1915 and to Sergeant on 19 Apr 1916. He reverted to the rank of Private in 1917. He left the army in 1919 and was awarded a Silver Badge upon receiving a severe head wound, and the War and Victory medal.
After the war Herbert lived at 116 Lairgate and was a labourer he died in Jul 1937 and was buried at Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley.
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