WALFORD, HERBERT ASHFORD, Private, No. 2026, 1/14th Batt. (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas Charles Walford, of Maidenhead, Mineral Manager, Great Western Railway, by his 1st wife, Mary Ann Ashford, dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Tiverton; b. Southall, co. Middlesex, 26 Feb. 1889; educ. Maidenhead College; was on the staff of Messrs. Eveson & Co., Coal Merchants; joined the London Scottish, Feb. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 Sept. 1914, was reported missing after the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. He was unm. His younger brother, Private L. F. Walford, who was in the same battn. was wounded and taken a prisoner on this occasion and died the next day (see following notice).
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1