Claim: Dutch climber Siegfried Herford fought with the British Army in World War I as a Private Officer of the Royal Fusiliers.
Evidence: Siegfried Wedgwood Herford (1891 – 28 January 1916) was a British climber who was active in the years immediately before World War I. With the War in full swing, and having failed to obtain a commission due to his Teutonic heritage, Herford enlisted as a private in the Royal Fusiliers, and was killed by a grenade blast on 28 January 1916.