Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Samuel and Lucy A. Wadsworth and the husband of Edith Ellen Wadsworth. The 1911 census records for 14, Scotland Road, Little Bowden, Leicestershire. Herbert Wadsworth, head of the family and married for 8 years, a Stay Cutter, born 1881 in Little Bowden, Northamtonshire and his wife Edith Ellen, born 1882 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, also William Herbert, son, born 1904 in Little Bowden, Northants. The 1891 census records for Scotland End, Little Bowden, Leicestershire. Samuel Wadsworth, head of the family and a Road Labourer, born 1841 in Finedon, Northamptonshire and his wife Lucy A. born 1840 in Little Bowden, Leicestershire, also George, son, single and a Stoker, born 1869, Fred, son, single and a Sawyer, born 1872, Kate, daughter and a Stay Maker, born 1878 and Herbert, son and a School Boy, born 1880, all four children were born in Little Bowden, Leics., additionally Thomas Sadington, grandfather, widower and a Retired Labourer, born 1815 in Cranford, Northants.