In Memory of HERBERT WITT Private 14996 11th Bn. Hampshire Regiment who died on Wednesday 6th September 1916. Age 19.
One of the 4 sons (Robert, Herbert, Alfred and Reginald) who died during the war – of Vincent & Sarah WITT of ‘Windy Ridge’ Abbotswell Road (the old cottage). In the 1901 census Herbert is listed as a boy of 4 years.
Commemorative Information
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 7C and 7B
This memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens commemorating the Battle of the Somme and bears the names of 72,000 officers and men that have no known grave. 90% of these died between July to November 1916.
Source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Notes
The Hampshire Regiment was on the Somme in 1916 and Herbert was probably killed during the 1st Battle of the Somme. The 11th battalion of the Hampshire Regiment was part of the 16th (Irish Division) involved in the Battle of Guillemont 3rd to 6th September 1916.
Source – work done by Ann Sevier