Name
Horace Hedley Reginald Rolfe
27/02/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 2nd Class
16186
Royal Flying Corps
1st Wing H.Q.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARLIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. D. 42.
France
Headstone Inscription
Sometime, Some Day We'll Understand
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, We are not aware of memorial in Green End
Pre War
Horace Hedley Reginald Rolfe was born on the 27 February 1891, the son of Frederick & Agnes Rolfe of
He married Caroline Doris Plater on the 28 October 1914 at Aston Clinton near Tring.
Wartime Service
Known as "Reggie", he joined the Royal Flying Corps on the 13 December 1915, having previously served with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. On the 25 September 1916 he was acting as an Observer in a BE2c aircraft piloted by Second Lieutenant Reginald Stanley Haward, when the aircraft was struck by German anti-aircraft fire. Reggie was taken to No.6 Casualty Clearing Station near Barlin, where he died from his injuries the following day.
Full biographical details can be found here: https://tringlocalhistory.org.uk/Memorial/Biog.%20Notes%204.htm
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson
