201135 Pte Herbert Arthur Bray, 7th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

201135 Pte Herbert Arthur Bray of the 7th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, was killed in action on 28th July 1917.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) notes that he was 34 years old, the son of John William and Kate Elizabeth Bray of 55 St. Saviour's Road, West Croydon, and the husband of Mabel H. Bray of 5 Sundridge Road, Addiscombe, East Croydon, Surrey. He was serving with the 7th Battalion's A Company when he was killed.

I am uncertain when Herbert joined the Cameron Highlanders but his medal index card notes that he was only entitled to the British War and Victory medals which in turn means that he must have arrived overseas no earlier than the 1st January 1916. Soldiers Died in The Great War records that he was living in Croydon and enlisted in Croydon and this obviously ties in with the next of kin information sent to the CWGC after his death.

Herbert Bray has no known grave and is one of 54,896 commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War