Name
Herbert Sidney Shaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/02/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12249
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Pre War
Herbert was the adopted son of James & Matilda Frost of the “William IV” Public House, Baldock Street, Royston, Hertfordshire. Before the outbreak of the Great War he was employed as a local Postman.
Wartime Service
He was posted to France on the 30th July 1915. On the 11th February 1917 the Battalion were ordered to push forward their line of posts on the E side of the Puisieux Road, in the Ancre Valley. The attack was made in the dark and some of the assaulting troops were held up by enemy wire and heavy machine gun fire. It was during this attack that Herbert went missing.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
