BORN HULL 1896. KNOWN AS ‘HARRY’. ELDEST SON OF HENRY ROTHENBURG (1869-1912) & MARIA AUGUSTE EMILLIE WOLTER (ANNIE ROTHENBURG) (1876-1944), OF 16 WEST GATE, DRIFFIELD. BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE BORN IN GERMANY. THEY HAD LIVED IN HULL SINCE 1881 RESIDING AT 7 SEWER LANE.
HARRY ROTHENBURG ENLISTED IN LIVERPOOL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 1726 DERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY. HE TRANSFERRED TO THE 13TH ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/04/1918, AGED 22. COMMEMORATED ON THE POZIERES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING ON THE SOMME,
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ANNIE.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, FRED ROTHENBURG, 240352, SERVED IN THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE LEFT ANOTHER YOUNGER BROTHER, RICHARD AND SISTERS, GERTRUDE, ANNIE, ELIZABETH AND ELSIE.
First name:
HENRY ROBERT
Military Number:
54787
Rank:
Private
Date Died
22/04/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
22
WEST GATE, DRIFFIELD, , EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
