Godfrey Herbert

Captain Godfrey Herbert, DSO and bar, was an officer of the Royal Navy who was sometimes referred to as Baralong Herbert, in reference to the Baralong incidents that took place during World War I. In a naval career stretching from 1898 to 1919, and with a return to duty between 1939 and 1943 in World War II, Herbert had several close encounters with death.

Godfrey Herbert was born onFebruary 1884 in Coventry. His father was a local solicitor, John Herbert, and his mother was Lucy Mary Herbert . He attended Stubbington House School in the village of Stubbington, Hampshire. This was an early example of a preparatory school established primarily with the purpose of educating boys for service in the Royal Navy and it was probably the most successful of such institutions, becoming known as the cradle of the navy. Following a period at Littlejohns School, a naval crammer in Greenwich, Herbert became a naval cadet on HMS Britannia in 1898, and in June 1900 was enlisted as a midshipman in the Navy.

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