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Rank : Corporal

Army Number : 15150

Unit : 9th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Shepshed, Leicestershire. Enlisted at Loughborough, Leicestershire. Served with the 9th Battalion during World War One. Killed in action 25.9.1916, aged 27. He is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Information from a private source:

Herbert was born in Shepshed in 1889. He was the son of John & Ann of 71 Brook Street. Prior to the war he worked at a Colliery as seen on the 1911 census. He was a border at a house in Donnington-le-Heath. Herbert was 27 when he was killed on the 25th of September 1917. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. His father John did not live to see his son killed as he died 18 months previously. What a hard blow for his mother Ann to loose a husband and son.

Date of Birth : c1889

Place of Birth : Shepshed, Leicestershire

Date of Death : 25.9.1916

Place of Death : France

Civil Occupation : Collier Worker

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : France and Flanders