King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 9th Battalion, Service no.23892
Son of John Rollinson and Mary Ann Gill. Husband of Emily Fanetta Elizabeth Frame.
Story
Herbert was born in Halton in 1881. His father passed away in 1892, and his mother in 1905. Herbert married Emily Frame in 1902, who was from Windsor, and by 1911 they had had 8 children, though only 4 survived, and they lived at 4 Deal Terrace, Halton. Lines from a local newspaper stated that Private Rollinson was wounded in March 1917. He returned to the front, and was killed in action in October 1917, aged 36. His son William Henry Rollinson was born in 1909, and was killed on 7th August 1944 during the Second World War, and is buried at the Bayeux War Cemetery. Emily moved to Rakehill Road, Barwick, where she passed away in 1965, aged 83.
Where was the 9th Battalion KOYLI in 1917?
As the Tyne Cot memorial is to the missing in Belgian Flanders, Private Rollinson may have been involved in Ypres or Passchendaele. In 1917, in the Third Battle of Ypres, an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele.
Herbert is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke Cemetery, Panel 108 to 118
Kippax Roll of Honour 