War dead (1914)

Post date: May 02, 2014 4:43:39 PM

Extract from Kent Messenger of 1st May 1915.

Lance Corpl. R. A. Head,

Waterlingbury.

KILLED IN ACTION.

Lance-Corpl. Robert Arthur Head, 6th Dragoon Guards, was killed in action on Nov. 1st, 1914, but news only reached his friends last week from the War Office of his death, although he was reported missing at the time. It was in the early hours of Nov. 1st that he volunteered to leave the trench on a reconnoitring errand. He had not gone twenty yards when a horde of Germans came up. This was the day on which, in the battle of Messines, the London Scottish were so cut up. His sergeant writes that he deserved the

V.C for the gallant duty which he performed. He was a native of Wateringbury, son of Mrs. Bertha Crayford, Bow Road, Watering­bury. -