Herbert Yeomans was born in 1883 in Kettering Northamptonshire and was the eldest son of Samuel Yeomans & Jane Lewis. On August 23rd 1908 he married Lily Essam and they had a son born 1909 and a daughter born 1911. Before the onset of was Herbert worked in the shoe industry. Herbert attaine the rank of Sargeant serving with the 6th battalion Leicestershire Regiment. He was killed on 17 June 1917 at the age of Thirty-four.

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