Name
Herbert William Letch
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
44453
Manchester Regiment
2nd/9th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. VI. J. 13A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Shenley Village Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Aston Under Lyne Civic Memorial Manchester
Pre War
Son of William and Letitia Letch, of Green St., Shenley, Herts.
Census: 1891 Census living in Boreham Street, Boreham, Chelmsford with parents, 1901 Census, Living in Brook End, Cottages, Little Dunmow, Essex with parents and 1911 Census living in Green Street, Shenley with parents.
Wartime Service
Formerly 25998 in the Befordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, transferred to the Manchester.
Regiment on 28 Sep 1916 and to the 2/9 Battalion on 25 Jun 1917.
He was admitted to the No. 34 Casualty Clearing Station on 22 Mar 1918, with a gun shot wound to the chest
Additional Information
Brother of Bertie Charles Letch who also served and fell in France. 13 Mar 1919 a second brother listed as serving with the Army of the Rhine, a survivor of the conflict.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
Jonty Wild
