Name
Herbert Wagstaff
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
40383
Lancashire Fusiliers
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
VI. A. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Lilla and the late Maximilian Wagstaff, of Tipper Caldecote, nr. Biggleswade, Beds.
Wartime Service
Formerly 25558 in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
This man’s connection to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment may be misleading. This combined regiment was not officially formed until 1919, but arguably the process began in May 1918 with the amalgamation of the remnants of Hertfordshire Regiment with those of the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. When men died before 1919 it is likely that they were officially still in one or the other of the individual regiments. In the absence of other information we are recording them as related to Hertfordshire, rather than miss such a relationship.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
