Name
Herbert Rofe Halls
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29771
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
I. B. 27.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
Herbert Rofe Halls was born in late 1879 in Albury, the son of Frederick and Susannah Hails. The name Rofe comes from his mother’s family. In 1891 they were living at Clapgate and his father was a Farm Bailiff. In 1901 Herbert was a farm labourer, stil
Wartime Service
He is recorded as enlisting in Bedford in to the Bedfordshire Regt and was serving in C Company 7th Battalion when he was killed, while relieving the Suffolk Regt in the front line Regina Trench. He is recorded in the Bn. log as 29774 not 29771.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
