Name
Herbert William Mansfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/09/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
54720
Welsh Regiment
19th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GOUZEAUCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
I. C. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1884 in Hertford son of Herbert and Rachel (Watson) Mansfield and was living in 33 St. Andrew's Street, Hertford in 1891 and 1901.
He lived at 8 Davies Street and was a groundsman in 1908 and 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the Hertfordshire Territorial Force on 9 Apr 1908 for one year’s service. He was re-engaged on 22 Feb 1909 for four years’ service and transferred to 1st Herts. Battery of the Royal Field Artillery.
He was then recalled on the outbreak of WW1 as 6082 Private Hertfordshire Regiment. He transferred to the Welsh Regiment and was killed in action.
Formerly 26170 in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
This man’s connection to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment may be misleading. This combined regiment was not officially formed until 1919, but arguably the process began in May 1918 with the amalgamation of the remnants of Hertfordshire Regiment with those of the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. When men died before 1919 it is likely that they were officially still in one or the other of the individual regiments. In the absence of other information we are recording them as related to Hertfordshire, rather than miss such a relationship.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
