Name
Jonathan Watts Archer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/06/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40516
Lancashire Fusiliers
2nd/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOUCHIN BRITISH CEMETERY
II. G. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Martha Archer, of Ramsey St. Mary'S, Hunts., and the late John Archer.
Wartime Service
Formerly 26207 in the Bedfordshire & 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
Jonty Wild
