Herbert Pendleton
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Herbert Pendleton was born in 1879 in Old Basford, Nottingham. Herbert married Blanche Lester Elliott (born 1878, Wysall) in 1900 and they had four children: John Walter William Lester b. 1900, George Herbert Edward Harry b. 1902 and Thomas Bertram Arthur b. 1904, who were all were born in Wysall, and Samuel Francis Randolph, was born at Normanton on the Wolds in 1907. In 1901 Herbert, a wheelwright/joiner, his wife and son John were living in Wysall, Nottinghamshire, with his wife's widowed mother, Mary AL Elliott. By the time of the 1911 census the family was living at Normanton on the Wolds and shown as Herbert 33 yrs a joiner and wheelwright, Blanche 33 yrs and their children John 10 yrs, George 9yrs and Thomas 8yrs who were scholars and Samuel 3 yrs.
Herbert Pendleton was a civilian munitions worker employed at the Chilwell munitions factory. He was killed on 1st July 1918 when the factory suffered an accidental explosion.
Herbert died in the explosion at the Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, on 1st July 1918. The ammonium nitrate plant exploded causing the worst accidental munitions explosion of the Great War. In all, over 130 people were killed, of whom only 32 could be positively identified. The unidentified bodies are in a mass grave in Attenborough churchyard. The people who died are commemorated on a memorial on the site of the factory which became part of Chetwynd Barracks (now closed). Nottingham Evening Post, ‘In Memoriam’, 1 July 1933 [25th anniversary]: ‘Pendleton. In loving memory of a dear husband and father, Herbert Pendleton, killed Chilwell explosion, July, 1918. Wife and Bertram.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) 'In Memoriam' notice also placed in the Nottingham Evening Post, 1 July 1946: 'wife, sons'
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