Name
Robert William Shergold
2 December 1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/05/1918
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265904
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
X. H. 2.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
LEST WE FORGET
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Robert William Shergold was born on 2 December 1879 at Plumstead, Kent to Thomas and Jane Shergold. The family lived in there in 1881 but had moved to Bromley in 1891,
He married Charlotte Bentley in early 1905 in Lewisham. On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and daughters Minnie and Beatrice, at 24 Marvels Terrace, The Avenue, Grove Park, London, SE and was working as a Jobbing Gardener. They later had a son James William born in 1912.
Wartime Service
Also served under reg no. 3240 and in Bedfordshire Regiment.
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served in France from 27 April 1915. He was captured and taken as a prisoner of war. He died following the amputation of his right leg
Dates of death differ between CWGC (10.5.1918) and SDGW (24.4.18).
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £17 and pay owing of £10 10s 1d. She also received a pension of £1 9s 7d from 3 February 1919.
His wife, Mrs C Shergold, 16 Plaistow Lane, Sundrige Park, Bromley, Kent, requested the headstone inscription "LEST WE FORGET"
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
