Name
Geoffrey (poss Jeffrey) George Rollings
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17777
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 91 to 93.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the Leavesden memorials (*1), Not on the Abbots Langley memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of George and the late Sarah Jane (nee HAZARD) ROLLINGS.
His parents married 11 October 1867 at St Mary the Virgin, Eaton Bray, Beds. Sarah died 1914 in Watford aged 66, and was buried 12 January in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
*1 Jeffrey was born 1887 in either Leavesden or Abbot’s Langley, Herts.
On the 1891 Census, aged 3 he lived in Eaton Bray, with his mother and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 13 he lived in Watford, with his brother and sister-in-law. On the 1911 Census, a plumber’s labourer aged 23, he still lived in Watford, with his brother and sister-in-law.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 28 July 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Also recorded as ROLLINGS J in the Borough Roll of Honour. Unfortunately, Geoffrey’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
