Name
Henry Harry Roberts
28 Jan 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27571
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
VI. E. 56.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
Henry Harry was born was born on 28 Jan 1894 in Harpenden to John Roberts, a butler and Elizabeth (nee Townley).
On the 1901 Census the Family were in living in Wexham, Bucks, (Harry’s father may have still been working at Hornby Castle in Lancashire). On the 1911 Census the family were at Queens Road, Harpenden and Harry was working as an auxiliary postman.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment and was serving with the 8th (Service) Battalion occupying trenches at Mazingarbe, near Lens, France when he died of wounds on 23 May 1917.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
