Robert Rathmell HERDMAN

Main CPGW Record

Surname: HERDMAN

Forename(s): Robert Rathmell

Place of Birth: Sedbergh, Yorkshire

Service No: 30135

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Durham Light Infantry

Battalion / Unit: 22nd (Service) Battalion. (3rd County Pioneers)

Division: 8th Division

Age: 21

Date of Death: 1918-03-26

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 68 to 72.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)

Additional Information:

Robert Rathmell Herdman was the son of Edward Frederick and Margaret Herdman, née Geggie. Edward was born at South Hylton, Co. Durham and Margaret at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland.

1901 Morpeth, Northumberland Census: 35, Olympia Gardens - Robert R. Herdman, aged 4 years, born Sedbergh, Yorkshire, son of Edward F.and Margaret Herdman.

1911 Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham Census: 88, Princes Street - Robert Rathmell Herdman, aged 14 years, born Sedbergh, Yorkshire, son of Edward Frederick and Margaret Herdman.

The British Army Service Record for Robert Rathmell Herdman exists but may be incomplete. [Information received from the German Prisoner of War Office states that R.R. Herdmann, 30135 died on the 26 March 1918 and had been buried at: 'Morchani. (Dep. Somme) opposite the church at the Cross roads, Morchani-Pertain'. If Robert's body was found and re-buried after the war it would probably have been at Pargny British Cemetery as an unknown British soldier.]

Robert is commemorated on the Bishop Auckland War Memorial and in the Book of Remembrance 1914-18.

Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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