Identity
Person No.
27636
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Herbert
Initials
H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
34
Military Service
Rank
Civilian
Regiment
Secondary Unit
attd. Gen. Savile's Mission.
Death Record
Date of Death
Grave Reference
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Coordinates
Additional Information
Notes
Son of the Rev. Charles Wallace-Roberts and Margaret Mary Wallace-Roberts (nee Kerr), of Cape Colony, South Africa; husband of Mrs. M. O'Donnell-Peet (formerly Wallace-Roberts). Took up a post as an analytical chemist at the De Beers Dynamite Factory in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa. In the war he volunteered for active service in South Africa but was rejected as being medically unfit. He then travelled to England and offered his services for munitions work. He was appointed to HM Munitions Explosives Factory at Queensferry, Flintshire, where he became Chief Chemist.
Citation
LG Sup 7 January 1918 pg 404 - "Chief Chemist, H.M. Factory, Queen's ferry, Ministry of Munitions."
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project