Name
Charles Waller
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
43
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1872 in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Charles, who worked at Sele Mill, was found by Doris, his wife, dying beside the Mill gates, where he had taken shelter during a devastating Zeppelin raid over Hertford. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Acknowledgments
Info from Hertford; A History by Jacqueline Cooper. Malcolm Lennox
