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235027 1st/5th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Herbert Basham (recorded as ‘William Herbert’ on CWGC) was born in Sudbury in 1888, the youngest son of James and Mary Basham (née Blackshaw). His parents, two older sisters and an older brother were all employed as silk weavers and the family lived at 2 Plough Lane.
Herbert enlisted in Bury St Edmunds and served with the Suffolk Regiment (formerly 19716), it is not known when he transferred to The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. The battalion which formed part of 165th Brigade, 55th (West Lancashire) Division saw action at the opening attack of the Third Battle of Ypres at Pilckem Ridge (31 July–2 August) and at the Battle of Menin Road Ridge (20-25 September). British casualties during the heavy fighting at the Battle of Menin Road Ridge were almost 20,255 killed, missing or wounded of which Herbert was one.
Herbert died aged 29 on 20 September 1917. There is no known grave and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres, Belgium.
A Cross of Remembrance was laid at the Tyne Cot Memorial in April 2006 and April 2009. He is also remembered on the Sudbury Baptist Church Memorial in Church Street.
Herbert was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
His father was born James Cattling and had changed his name to Basham by 1867 when he married Mary Blackshaw. The family name remained as Basham until 1911 census when they are recorded as ‘Cattling’. Herbert is also on the War Memorial as Herbert Cattling. There were no set criteria for names to be put forward for the Sudbury War Memorial in 1919 and his name may have been put forward by different friends or relatives, hence he is on the War Memorial under both names.
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