The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal G Herbert

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

INSCRIPTION –

“OUR BUSINESS IS

LIKE MEN TO FIGHT

AND HERO-LIKE TO DIE”

Lance Corporal George HERBERT, G/1659, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 24th May 1917, age 28.

Born Penge, Kent, son of George Henry and Martha Herbert, of Penge, Kent.

Husband of Amy A. Herbert, of 63, Blenheim Road, Penge, London.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, XII. B. 20A., Belgium.

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