Faber, VE
(1895 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
7th April 1895
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1909 - 1913
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
St. Helen's, Westwood Park, Forest Hill
REGIMENT
Royal Army Service Corps
FINAL RANK:
Private
DATE OF DEATH:
4th September 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
23
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Cambrai
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-Au-Bois , XII C 3
Private Victor Edmund Faber
Victor was born on April 7th 1895, the eldest child, and only son, of an import merchant, also named Victor Faber, and his wife, Marie. Having joined the College at the age of thirteen he went on to spend the next four and a half years as a pupil, some of it as a boarder in Ivyholme, before leaving in the summer of 1913 from the Engineering 6th. He went on to take up a place at the City & Guilds Engineering College, leaving after two years.
Upon having received his qualification, Victor volunteered as a member of the R.A.S.C., being assigned to their Mechanical Transport division. He was sent to France within a fortnight, and for the next three years held a variety of roles working in mechanical transport divisions. During the late summer of 1918 he was attached to 350th Mechanical Company of the Royal Engineers, but had been recommended for a commission in the Royal Air Force, and had even sat the necessary exams in preparation. Before he could transfer however, on September 4th, he was killed whilst driving his car along a heavily shelled road in the Cambrai Sector.
