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Pte. Herbert Waller
British Army 1/6th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:South Shields
(d.26th April 1915)
Herbert Waller served in the 1st/6th battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers and was killed in action age 25 on the 26th April 1915. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph and Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Panel 8 and 12. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Herbert was born in South Shields 1890, son of John and Jane Ann Waller nee Gibbs of South Shields. In the 1911 census the family were living at 56 Bythesam Street, South Shields with John(61) a dock labourer at ship repairers and his wife of 33 years Jane Ann(59). They had 8 children of whom 6 survived. Only 3 sons are living at this address, John(30), a horse driver at Tyne Docks, Herbert(20) a general labourer at corrugated metals and Robert(14) an errand boy at cabinet makers.