Send a Message via the The Wartime Memories Project Website
Send a Message via The Wartime Memories Project Website
Your message will be forwarded to the last contact details we have, your email address will not be passed on, they can reply to you via this messaging system.
Please scroll down to send a message.
245570
Rflmn. Harold Jesse Herbert
British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:120 Rotherfield Street, London
(d.17th November 1917)
Harold Herbert was killed relieving the 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion and the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment NW of Passchendaele village (almost certainly close to Hill 52, Vindictive Crossroads. Enemy barrage reported as heavier than on any previous occasion during tour of duty in Official War Diary.
He was buried at Hill 52 and later re-interred at Poelcapelle British Cemetery. Aged 34 at death, he left a wife Annie, and four children, Elsie, Harold (Vic), Leonard and Bunty. He was a master builder in Islington, North London before his military service.