Name
Herbert Frank Darby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
77443
Canadian Infantry
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
I. F. 180.
France
Headstone Inscription
Forever in our thoughts
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of James and Esther Darby of Hitchin, born on 23rd December 1884 in Hitchin. He enlisted on the 9th November 1914 in Vancouver when he was 29 years and 10 months old.
Herbert was working as a clerk and his paper record him as 5’ 5 ½” with a dark complexion with light brown eye and dark brown hair.
Wartime Service
His Service Number was 77443 and he was in the 7th Battalion (British Columbia) Canadian Infantry. At the time of his death this unit was in the 2nd Canadian Brigade of the 1st Canadian Division.
He is buried in Plot 1, Row F, Grave 180 in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in France. A private inscription on the stone reads “Forever in our thoughts" as requested by Miss K Darby of 45 Salter’s Avenue, Southsea, Hants.
Acknowledgments
A Dunne David C Baines, Jonty Wild
