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The Roll lists his address as Jasmine Cottage, Fengate. It also recorded the death of his brother William.
(CWGC records that Private Herbert Wallis, regimental number 31505, died on 23/4/1917 serving in the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Bay 5 of Arras Memorial in France.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Herbert was living in Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire when he enlisted at Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Catharine was his legatee.
His birth was registered in the Hardingstone District in 1880 as "Herbert Wallis Penn", which was therefore his legal name; his parents married a few weeks after his birth. (The marriage of his parents, Ellen Penn and Albert Wallis, was recorded in the Marriage register of Hardingstone Church on 18/7/1880; both gave their address as Cotton End. Although recorded in the Marriage register as "Albert", he went by the name of "Herbert" on census). Following his parents' marriage in 1880, "Herbert Wallis Penn" took his father's surname. On the 1881 census he was recorded as "Herbert Penn Wallis", aged 11 months, living with his parents in Oundle. On the 1891 census he was living with them in Southwick. On the 1901 census the family lived at 13 Granby Street in Peterborough. On the 1911 census Herbert was staying with his sister Maggie and her husband Frank Habbin in Sutton on Sea in Lincolnshire, while his parents were living at Jasmine Cottage in Fengate, Peterborough. Herbert's marriage to Catherine A Hall was registered in Horncastle District in 1914).