Rushden Research Group: Obituary Pte. Herbert Lawrence 1917.

Private Herbert Lawrence

41753 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment

The Argus Newspaper

Son of Frank & Sarah Lawrence

Died 26th October 1917

Aged 19 years

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium

Born at Raunds, enlisted at Kettering, lived at 12 Grove Street, Raunds.

Rushden Echo, 23rd August 1918, transcribed by Kay Collins

Killed—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lawrence, of Grove-street, Raunds, have received a letter from the Army Record Office, Lichfield, saying that no further news having been received relative to Pte. Herbert Lawrence, South Staffs Regiment, aged 19, missing since Oct. 26th 1917, they have been constrained to concluded that he is dead.

Raunds War Memorial