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Herbert Osgerby was born in Beverley on Christmas Day 1891 and baptised at Beverley Minster on Boxing Day, the son of Charles Osgerby, born in Beverley in 1868, and his wife Bessie, from from Walcote, Leicestershire. Charles came from a family of market gardeners in the Queensgate area of Beverley and he too followed this profession. Charles died in 1893; Bessie never remarried and Herbert remained an only child. They lived on Albert Terrace but moved to 87 Flemingate. Herbert became a general labourer, he never married and was still living with his widowed mother in 1939, this time at Glenfield, Swinemoor Lane.
Herbert had served as a trooper in the 1st/1st East Riding Yeomanry before the war. They were sent to the Middle East and arrived in Egypt on 10 Nov 1915. They undertook desert patrols before involvement in the Palestine campaigns in 1917 and 1918. Herbert was transferred to the Imperial Camel Corps. After the defeat of the Ottoman Turks in Palestine many members of the Yeomanry were converted to infantry and set up Machine Gun Corps units in France but Herbert ended the war in the N.S.R. Yeomanry, part of the Corps of Hussars. He left the army in Oct 1919. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
Herbert was described in the 1939 Register as being “incapacitated” and he died on 3 Mar 1962 at the age of 70. He was buried at Queensgate Cemetery on 8 Mar 1962. His mother Bessie died in 1951.
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