Name
Herbert Harding
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
31853
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GOMMECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2, HEBUTERNE
IV. D. 26.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Herbert and Marie Harding, of 3, Hill View, St. Andrews St., Hitchin, Herts. His home was at 3, Hill Villas, St. Andrew's St. Hitchin. He was the only son of Herbert and Marie Harding.
Before joining up he was employed by R.E. Sanders & Son the coachbuilders of Hitchin. He also played for the Union Jack Football Club. He had been born in and resided in Hitchin, but enlisted in Bedford
Wartime Service
Herbert was given Regimental Number 31853 in the 6th Battalion. He had been in France for 16 months when he was killed in action by shellfire.
The Battalion took over a length of trenches in the Rossignol Wood sector with three Companies in the front Line and one in support on the 1st April 1918 and remained there until the 9th April. The casualties during the period were 32 other ranks killed, 70 wounded, 35 gassed and 4 died of wounds although no major engagement was in progress.
He was buried in Plot IV, Row D, Grave 26 in the Gommecourt British Cemetery in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
