WW1 Kingsbury Episcopi
This publication contains some background information on each of the men who were killed in the First World War. Their names are recorded on the War Memorials within the Civil Parish of Kingsbury Episcopi and it is this name that appears at the top of each man’s pages of information. There is also information about the men’s families. Four years of research by the Kingsbury Time Travellers, the local area History Group, have unearthed a wealth of photographs, documents, maps and memories. Through the Kingsbury Time Travellers’ Facebook page, we have been able to link up with people and families connected to these men, and so uncover more material.
This publication contains some background information on each of the men who were killed in the First World War. Their names are recorded on the War Memorials within the Civil Parish of Kingsbury Episcopi and it is this name that appears at the top of each man’s pages of information. There is also information about the men’s families. Four years of research by the
Kingsbury Time Travellers, the local area History Group, have unearthed a wealth of photographs, documents, maps and memories. Through the Kingsbury Time Travellers’ Facebook page, we have been able to link up with people and families connected to these men, and so uncover more material.
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HERBERT G. FANNING<br />
14<br />
Rank, service number<br />
and regiment<br />
Able Seaman Z/1656 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve<br />
Enlisted 1916<br />
Home Address<br />
No.17 on Plaque<br />
Chestal, Priory Avenue, Taunton, Somerset. This was his address<br />
from 22 June 1916 when he married Rose Fanny Pine. Prior to<br />
this, according to the 1911 census, he was living with his adoptive<br />
parents the Rev. & Mrs. Phillips, The Vicarage, now <strong>Kingsbury</strong><br />
House, K.E.<br />
Date of death 10 April 1918<br />
Age at death<br />
Circumstances of death<br />
Where buried<br />
Date of birth & full<br />
name<br />
Occupation<br />
Parents<br />
Spouse and children<br />
32 years<br />
Herbert was on the destroyer HMS Magic. It was damaged by an<br />
explosion when it hit a mine at Loch Swilly off Northern Ireland<br />
on 10 April 1918. There were 25 fatalities including Herbert. His<br />
body was not recovered.<br />
Herbert is commemorated on Panel 29 of Plymouth Naval Memorial<br />
to the Missing, Plymouth, Devon.<br />
28th September 1885. HERBERT GEORGE FANNING<br />
Bank Clerk at Stuckey’s Bank, Langport, then Parrs Bank, Taunton.<br />
Herbert was born in Maidenhead Berkshire to Robert John<br />
Fanning and Isabella Fanning (nee McMasters). Robert worked<br />
for HM Treasury as a county court examiner/auditor. Isabella<br />
died in 1890 when Herbert was five years old. Robert was killed<br />
in a boating accident in the Menai Straits in August 1893 when<br />
Herbert was seven years old.<br />
Herbert married Rose Fanny Pine on 22 June 1916 in Taunton. In<br />
1911 Rose was working as a milliner in Taunton and living at 33<br />
North Street. They had no children.<br />
After Herbert’s death, Rose went on to marry a prison chaplain in<br />
Birmingham in 1922.
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