Lock, Herbert James Hoddinott

LOCK,

HERBERT JAMES HODDINOTT

BORN 12 JANUARY 1875

Herbert James Hoddinott

Lock was born on 12 January 1875 in Chesterblade, Evercreech, Somerset, son of James Candy (b 1839 in Croscombe Somerset) and Sarah Jane, (née Hoddinott, b 1849 in Saltford, Somerset). Herbert and Sarah were married 1868 in Frome, Somerset. Herbert had an older sister Emilie A H (b 1871) and a younger brother Frank (b 1879).

Herbert entered the Preparatory School Shell form on 14 September 1886, aged 11, leaving in December 1890 from Upper School Mercantile, aged 15. His father was a Yeoman and they lived in Wick House Farm, Saltford, near Bristol.

Herbert went to New Zealand at the age of 18, settling on a farm in Crofton, Marton. He fought with the 3rd and 7th New Zealand Contingents in the South African War (1899-1902) and was subsequently wounded.

Herbert’s father died in 1913 and Herbert joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles in September 1915. He left Wellington, New Zealand, by ship on 9 October 1915, destination Suez and Egypt.

Serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Alexandria, Trooper Herbert Lock was killed in action at Ayankara, south of Jaffa, Palestine on 14 November 1917, aged 42. He is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, HaMerkaz, Israel, (Grave Reference B 35).

Since both his parents had already died, his next of kin was his sister Mrs Colledge.

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