Lance Corporal Robert Charles Mayersbeth No. 9857 - South Wales Borderers



Robert Charles Mayersbeth enlisted into the South Wales Borderers April/May 1908.

Served with the 1st Battalion in the following locations prior to August 1914

March 1905 - March 1909 Karachi and Hyderabad, India
March 1909 - 2 December 1910 Right British Infantry (later Roberts) Barracks, Quetta, India
23 December 1910 - 24 August 1913 Lower Barracks, Chatham, Kent
28 September 1913 - 12 August 1914 Bordon, Hampshire
12 August 1914 - 13 June 1919 BEF France - WW1

Went to France with the British Expeditionary Force on 13.8.1914.

Born in Lambeth, London.

Killed in action 26.8.1914. Commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

Named on the 1914 Star medal roll as MYERSBETH (National Archive, Kew reference WO329/2447 sheet 89).


Source: Celia Green
Customer Services Manager
The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) Museum
(formerly The South Wales Borderers Museum)
The Barracks, Watton, Brecon LD3 7EB