Private T4/096339, Army Service Corps, who died on
Friday, 16th July 1915
Cemetery: STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE,
Seine-Maritime, France. Panel Number: Div. 19. F. 8.
Location: Ste. Marie Cemetery is one of the town
cemeteries, but it is actually situated in the commune of
Graville-St. Honorine. It stands on the ridge overlooking Le Havre
from the north and is north of the N.182.
Historical Information: During the 1914-18 war Le Havre was one of the ports at which the British Expeditionary Force disembarked in August 1914, and, except for a short interval during the German advance in 1914, it remained No. 1 Base throughout the war. By the end of May, 1917, it contained 3 general and 2 stationary hospitals, and 4 convalescent depots. During the latter part of the 1939-45 war Le Havre was used as a supply and reinforcement base. There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and 350, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. In addition, special memorial records the names of 144 who lost their lives when the hospital ships 'Galeka' and 'Salta' and the transport ship 'Normandy' were sunk in the Channel by the enemy, between 1916-18 and whose bodies were not recovered.
Gunner 9165, "B" Bty. 83rd Bde., Royal Field
Artillery who died on Thursday, 8th November 1917. Age 23. Son of
Harry Henley, of 45, Addison Rd., Hove, Sussex.
Cemetery: DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, Ieper,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel Number: II. B. 27.
Location: The Cemetery is located on the
Diksmuidseweg, N369 road, in the direction of Boezinge. From Ieper
station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn
right and go to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the
next roundabout, where you should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat.
Take the second turning on the left which is the Diksmuidseweg. The
cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just past the first
turning on the right.
Historical Information: Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station was a medical post 1.6 kilometres North of the town of Ypres. Its name is believed to have been taken from that of a Southern Irish Hunt. The Cemetery was begun in July, 1917, on the day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, and Plots I and IV were completed by November, 1918. The graves of October and November, 1918, are due to deaths in the 11th, 36th and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations. After the Armistice, bodies were brought into this Cemetery from isolated graves and small Cemeteries on the battlefields North, East, and South of Ypres, including Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke. There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casaulties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 200 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials record the names of 10 soldiers buried in Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen and 29 buried in Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shelling during later fighting. A special memorial was also erected to a soldier of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment who is believed to be buried in one of the graves marked as unknown. The cemetery covers an area of 5,064 square metres and is enclosed on the North and South sides by a low curb wall.
Driver 150713 Base Details, Royal Field Artillery, who
died on Monday, 8th October 1917.
Cemetery: LAHANA MILITARY CEMETERY, Greece. Panel
Number: III. A. 10.
Location: Lahana is a village on the old
Thessalonika-Seres Road, about 56 kilometres north-east of
Thessalonika. The cemetery lies 1 kilometre west of the village. The
cemetery has an entrance gate in the North side of the cemetery wall;
and in the North wall is a recess containing a cairn surmounted by a
cross. A similar recess in the South wall contains the War Stone.
Historical Information: The cemetery was formed in July, 1916, to serve the 27th Casualty Clearing Station, to which sick and wounded men were brought from the Struma front. From June to August, 1917, burials took place also from the 18th Stationary Hospital. Of the graves in Plots II and III, 41 were concentrated after the Armistice from the two front-line cemeteries at Paprat (8 miles North-West of Lahana) and from other small graveyards.
Gunner 754 49th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery,
who died on Saturday, 8th July 1916. Age 28. Son of George and Eliza
Henley, of Newport; husband of Fanny Henley, of Portscatho. Cornwall.
Cemetery: PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT, Somme,
France. Panel Number: III. E. 37.
Location: Maricourt is a village situated on the D938,
Albert-Peronne Road, 10.5 kilometres from Albert. The Cemetery is on
the western outskirts of the village on the north side of this road.
Historical Information: Maricourt was, at the beginning of the Battles of the Somme, 1916, the point of junction of the British and French forces, and within a very short distance of the front line; it was lost in the German advance of March, 1918, and recaptured at the end of the following August. The Cemetery was begun by fighting units and Field Ambulances in the Battles of the Somme, 1916, and used until August, 1917; a few graves were added later in the War, and at the Armistice it consisted of 175 graves which now form almost the whole of Plot I. It was completed after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields in the immediate neighbourhood and from certain smaller burial grounds. There are now nearly 1,500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 300 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 26 soldiers from the United Kingdom known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of three soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves could not be found. The cemetery covers an area of 3,787 square metres and is enclosed on three sides by a low red brick wall. The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were removed to Peronne Road Cemetery:- AUTHUILE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, which was on the South side of the Communal Cemetery. It contained the graves of 108 French soldiers and those of 23 from the United Kingdom who fell in 1915 and early 1916. BRIQUETERIE EAST CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN, on the East side of the brick-works between Maricourt and Montauban, containing the graves of 46 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the latter half of 1916. CARNOY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, in which 36 French soldiers and one from the United Kingdom were buried in March, 1918. CASEMENT TRENCH CEMETERY, MARICOURT, on the West side of the road to the Briqueterie, in which 163 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from South Africa were buried in 1916-1918. FARGNY MILL FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, CURLU, on the North bank of the Somme, in which six soldiers from the United Kingdom and two from Australia were buried in 1916-1918. LA COTE MILITARY CEMETERY, MARICOURT, a little way West of Peronne Road Cemetery, containing the graves of 38 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Australia who fell in 1916-1917. MARICOURT FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, on the South side of the village, containing the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in December, 1916. MONTAUBAN ROAD FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY, MARICOURT, in which six men of the 1st/8th King's Liverpools were buried in August, 1916. TALUS BOISE BRITISH CEMETERY, CARNOY, between Carnoy and Maricourt, at the South end of a long copse. It was used in the latter half of 1916 and (chiefly by the 5th Royal Berks) in August, 1918, and it contained the graves of 175 soldiers from the United Kingdom and five from South Africa.
Pioneer WR/21333 307th Road Construction Coy., Royal
Engineers, who died on Wednesday, 20th November 1918. Age 43. Husband
of Mrs. S. Frost (formerly Henley) of 8, Chatfield Rd., Cuckfield.
Cemetery: CUCKFIELD CEMETERY, Sussex, United Kingdom. Panel Number: 11 (W). 337
who died on Thursday, 14th November 1940. Age 17, of
11 Union Street. in Bull Yard shelter.
COUNTY BOROUGH OF COVENTRY, Section of the Civilian
War Dead Register
Stoker 1st Class SS/108405 (RFR/DEV/B/5750). H.M.S.
"Goliath.", Royal Navy, who died on Thursday, 13th May
1915. Son of George Henley, of Tottenham, and the late Charlotte Henley.
Memorial: PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL, Devon, United Kingdom.
Panel Number: 6.
Location: The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which overlooks directly towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times.
Private 18295, 2nd Bn., Wiltshire Regiment, who died
on Wednesday, 10th March 1915.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
Panel Number: Panel 33 and 34
Location: Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. From Bethune follow the signs for Armentieres until you are on the D171. Continue on this road through Essars and Le Touret village. Approximately 1 kilometre after Le Touret village and about 5 kilometres before you reach the intersection with the D947, Estaires to La Bassee road, the Cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
Company Sergeant Major 221 7th Bn., Australian
Infantry, A.I.F, who died on Tuesday, 11th May 1915.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel Number: Panel
201 to 204
Location: The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the
Gallipoli Peninsula. It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres
high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles. The
memorial bears over 20,000 names and is both the memorial to the
Gallipoli campaign and to men who fell in that campaign and whose
graves are unknown or who were lost or buried at sea in Gallipoli
waters (other than Australian and New Zealanders who are named on
other memorials). Also inscribed on the memorial are the names of all
the ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the army
formations and units which served on the Peninsula.
Historical Information: The Helles Memorial bears over 20,000 names and is both the memorial to the Gallipoli campaign and to men who fell in that campaign and whose graves are unknown or who were lost or buried at sea in Gallipoli waters (other than Australian and New Zealanders who are named on other memorials). Inscribed on it are the names of all the ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the army formations and units which served on the Peninsula.
Pioneer 1919, Royal Engineers, who died on Saturday,
18th September 1915. Age 17. East Anglian Signal Coy. Son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Henley, of 20, Springfield Rd., Bury St. Edmunds.
Cemetery: 7th FIELD AMBULANCE CEMETERY, Turkey. Panel
Number: IV. E. 1.
Location: The cemetery is on low ground, close under
the shelter of a hill between Chailak Dere and Aghyl Dere. It is
about 190 metres east of the Anzac-Suvla road.
Historical Information: The cemetery was named from the 7th Australian Field Ambulance, which landed on Gallipoli in September, 1915; but of the graves in it, 353 were brought in from earlier cemeteries after the Armistice, and the great majority are not Australian, but belonged, probably, to the 54th (East Anglian) Division. These smaller graveyards were known as Bedford Ridge, West Ham Gully, Waldron's (or rather Walden's) Point, Essex, Aghyl Dere, Eastern Mounted Brigade, Suffolk, Hampshire Lane Nos. 1 and 2, Australia Valley, 116th Essex, 1/8th Hants, Norfolk, Junction, and 1/4th Northants. The cemetery covers an area of 2,646 square yards.
Gunner 126503, 154th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison
Artillery, who died on Thursday, 18th April 1918. Age 30. Son of
Richard Tozer Henley and Mary Henley, of Torquay; husband of Ethel
Ruth Henley, of 77, Lymington Rd., Torquay.
Cemetery: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY No.3,
VLAMERTINGHE, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel Number: II. O. 11.
Location: Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3 is
located 6.5 km west of Ieper town centre, on the Zevekotestraat, a
road leading from the N308 connecting Ieper to Poperinge. From Ieper
town centre the Poperingseweg (N308), is reached via
Elverdingsestraat then directly over two small roundabouts in the J.
Capronstraat. The Poperingseweg is a continuation of the J.
Capronstraat and begins after a prominent railway level crossing. 6
km along the N308, after passing the village of Vlamertinge and just
beyond the church in the hamlet of Brandhoek lies the left hand
turning onto the Grote Branderstraat. After crossing the N38
Westhoekweg, the first right hand turning leads onto the
Zevekotestraat. The cemetery is located 300 metres along the
Zevekotestraat on the left hand side of the road, beyond the N38 dual
carriageway, which it is necessary to cross.
Historical Information: During the War, Brandhoek was within the comparatively safe area which ended at Vlamertinghe Church, and Field Ambulances were posted there continuously. The Military Cemetery was opened early in May, 1915, in a field adjoining the Dressing Station, and closed in July, 1917. In July, 1917, the casualties of the British offensive in Flanders and the arrival of the 32nd, 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations made it necessary to open the New Military Cemetery, 300 metres away. The graves in this Cemetery are of July and August, 1917. This was filled in the middle of August, 1917, and the New Military Cemetery No. 3, opposite the New Military, was opened. No. 3 was closed in May, 1918. There are now nearly 1,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The cemetery covers an area of 3,500 square metres. The gates of the Cemetery were presented by Mr. G. H. Strutt, whose son, Lieut. A. H. Strutt, is buried in Plot IV.
who died on Sunday, 11th May 1941. Age 43. Mayor of
Bermondsey. Husband of Gladys Mary Henley, of 52 Drummond Road.
Injured at Town Hall; died same day at St. Olave's Hospital.
Posthumous Commendation from H.M. the King, for brave conduct in
Civil Defence
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BERMONDSEY, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register
Rifleman 206636 24th Bn., Rifle Brigade, who died on
Thursday, 30th May 1918.
Memorial: KIRKEE 1914-1918 MEMORIAL, India. Panel
Number: Face 10.
Location: Kirkee, also known as Khadki, is a Military
Cantonment adjoining the large university town of Poona on the
Plateau above Bombay. It can be reached by train from Bombay to Poona
or by long distance taxi service from Dada Taxi Stand, Bombay. There
are direct flights from Bombay, Madras and Delhi but these tend to be
irregular. Taxis and Motor Rickshaws are available from Poona Railway
Station. To reach Kirkee War Cemetery, in which the memorial stands,
one must ask for Mula Road along which the cemetery is located. One
way is to cross the Sangam Bridge and follow the road which has the
River Mula on its right. The CWGC road direction board is on a
crossroads with the Bombay Poona Road. The cemetery is situated on
the right hand side and backs onto the river. From the railway
station follow the way via Juna Bazar, Sangam Bridge, past the
Engineering college, over Wakdewadi Bridge, past Bajaj Kamal Nayan
Udyan and onto Bhayawadi and Mula Roads. From the airport, one
reaches Ahmadnagar Road which joins onto Nagar Road followed by
Deccan College Road; over the Holkar Bridge and, keeping left at the
junction with Elphinson road, one enters Mula Road. The cemetery is a
short distance away on the left hand side of the road. The
Commonwealth War Graves road direction sign is situated at the
junctions of Elphinson Road and Mula Road, but it should be noted
that this is often hidden from view by Market Stalls. The 1914-1918
Memorial is situated at the far end of Kirkee War Cemetery facing the
entrance. The Memorial commemorates nearly two thousand soldiers who
served and died in India during the 1914-1918 War, who are buried in
many civil and cantonment cemeteries in India and Pakistan where
their graves can no longer be properly maintained. On the same
memorial are commemorated 193 East and West African soldiers who
served and died in non-operational zones in India in the 1939-1945
War, and whose graves either cannot be located or are so situated
that maintenance is not possible. The memorial is composed of eight
pylons of a sandstone known as "malad" forming a crescent
behind the Cross of Sacrifice. The names are inscribed on both faces
of each pylon. The inner faces of the two central pylons bear, in
English and Hindi, the dedicatory inscription, which reads: THESE
STONES BEAR THE NAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO SERVED AND DIED DURING THE
1914-1918 WAR AND LIE BURIED IN AJMER-MERWARA, BOMBAY, CENTRAL INDIA,
CENTRAL PROVINCES, RAJPUTANA AND EASTERN PUNJAB. HERE ALSO ARE
HONOURED SOLDIERS FROM EAST AND WEST AFRICA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
DURING THE 1939-1945 WAR AND REST IN MANY PARTS OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN.
Historical Information: THE KIRKEE MEMORIAL THE officers and men commemorated on the Kirkee 1914-1918 war memorial number 1,810. The following paragraphs describe briefly the operations in which they died, from August, 1914, to the close of the Third Afghan War in August, 1919. They do not attempt to suggest the great part played by Indian soldiers in the other campaigns of the War, from Ypres to Tsingtao, and the spirit in which German and Turkish armies were met, or the equal resolution with-which the Indian Government, month by month, reduced its margin of military security in order to serve the common purpose. The part played by the Indian Expeditionary Forces is described in other Registers, prefacing the names of their dead on the battlefields of 'Iraq, France and Belgium, Egypt and Palestine, East and West Africa, Persia, China and Macedonia. The services rendered by India as a whole may be summarised as the defence of her own frontiers by means of twelve British and certain Indian Regular battalions and eight Indian Cavalry regiments, a number of British Territorial units and Garrison Battalions, generous reinforcements from the Government of Nepal, and a remarkable and sustained expansion of the Indian Army; the maintenance of internal order by the Volunteers (later the Indian Defence Force), with the help of a fraction of the Regular units; the release of the main body of British Regular troops for service overseas, and the despatch of 552,000 Indian combatants and 391,000 Indian non-combatants to the theatres of War; the provision of sea and river transport on an unprecedented scale; the manufacture of munitions; the generous gifts by the Government, by the States and by individuals, of money, hospitals and material both for the Indian troops and for the British armies as a whole; and, as her most important service, and despite incessant enemy propaganda, the steady co-operation of almost the whole of the people with the Government, in the prosecution of a war in which Indian interest were never directly threatened in any serious degree. To defeat Turkish armies overseas, and even more distant German armies, British Indian and the Indian States stood by the side of Great Britain and the self-governing Dominions. For the purposes of this Register, those achievements must be barely summarised; the narrative which follows is concerned with the defence of India herself against direct aggression. If the extent of this aggression seems, in the end, to have been small, it must be remembered that the potential dangers were those of successful invasion by either fanatical tribes or disciplined troops; that it was partly sheer good fortune which prevented the coalition of overpowering numbers of hostile mountaineers on a 1,610 kilometres of frontier; and that the forces available for defence were at all times much weaker than Indian military opinion had laid down as essential "pending reinforcement from Home". 1914-1915: The Tochi. The war with Germany began on the 4th August, and the war with Turkey on the 1st November, but it was not until the end of November that the frontier were disturbed. In the meantime, the German cruiser "Emden' fired on the port of Madras on the 22nd-23rd September, and was driven off by gun-fire; and on the 29th September Sikh emigrants, returning from America, rioted near Calcutta. On the 28th November the Operations in the Tochi began, and they lasted until the following 27th March. The Tochi river flows Eastward from tribal territory, through North Waziristan, to join the Kurram and the Indus. An incursion by 2,000 tribesmen from Khost was defeated by North Waziristan Militia near Miranshah, on the Tochi, on the 29th November. The same unit, on the 7th January, defeated and expelled a similar force which had attacked Spina Khaisora post. On the 25th-26th March a force of over 7,000 men, threatening Miranshah, was completely defeated by the Bannu Moveable Column and the Militia in the Action of Dardoni. 1915: The Mohmands and Kalat. The year began with the hatching and discovery of a conspiracy in the Punjab and a small Mohmand raid near Shabkadar. With the spring the Mohmand trouble became serious, and the Operations against the Mohmands (14th-19th April) were carried out. Shabkadar is a fort in the Peshawar district, due North of Peshawar across the Kabul river. It had been attacked by Mohmands in 1897, and on the 13th April that tribe was found to be again mustering for a raid. On the 18th April, in an attack on troops of the 1st (Peshawar) Division, about 2,400 Mohmands were defeated near Hafiz Kor (a border place 6 kilometres North-West of Shabkadar). In May the Indian Government learnt that a Turco-German Mission was on its way to Kabul. Similar propaganda in Persia led to the establishment of the East Persia Cordon at the end of July. This force was based on Robat, at the extreme North-West corner of Baluchistan. It joined the Russian Cordon on the 7th October, and it kept the Indian border from possible penetration by way of Persian territory. The first Kalat Operations lasted from the 1st June to the 10th July. The Kalat State covers the greater part of Baluchistan, and the premier chief of Jhalawan, one of its Eastern districts, had sacked the State treasury at Khozdar. Disciplinary measures were carried out by the 106th Hazara Pioneers and a section of Sappers and Miners. The Operations against the Mohmands, Bunerwals and Swatis (17th August-28th October) entailed considerable fighting. The people of Swat and Buner inhabit tribal territory North-East and East of Mohmand country, and the three tribes enclose the Northern half of the Peshawar civil district. Fighting began with the defeat of about 3,500 Bunerwals near Rustam (26 kilometres North-East of Mardan) on the 17th August, and ended with the route of 3,000 Bajauris near Wuch (a river village in Swati territory, 8 kilometres North of Chakdarra). Six other small engagements had been fought; the most important was the Action of Hafiz Kor, on the 5th September, in which about 10,000 tribesmen were defeated, after a gallant resistance by infantry and cavalry. The Turco-German Mission arrived at Kabul about the beginning of September. It found support in a faction led by the Amir's brother, but to the end of hostilities the Amir-though encouraging the Mission as long as it was willing to be encouraged-kept his engagement of neutrality. On the 18th November a detachment of the 45th Rattray's Sikhs encountered a small party of Mahsuds near Khajuri Kach, on the Comal river, on the borders of Southern Waziristan and Baluchistan. 1916-1917: Persia, Kalat and the Mohmand Blockade. The year 1916 was at once more anxious and less troubled than 1915 had been. The fall of Kut (29th April) had not the effect on Indian opinion that was anticipated; the real apprehension felt in June that the Amir would join the Central Powers was gradually relieved. Serious hostilities were in fact confined to two areas. The East Persia Cordon was engaged from time to time, but with only small parties of raiders; the Mekran Mission, which travelled Persian Baluchistan in April, 1916-February, 1917, was not opposed. In the period 5th June-18th August the bandits in Jhalawan, Kalat State, Baluchistan, were suppressed. The Mohmand Blockade was begun on the 30th September and lasted until the 19th July, 1917. It was provoked by raids on the Peshawar district, and it was carried out by the erection of a chain of blockhouses linked by wire. It was marked by one definite encounter, the Third Affair of Hafiz Kor (15th November), in which about 6,000 Mohmands were defeated and dispersed. In July, 1917, the tribes formally submitted. 1917: The Mahsuds. The Operations against the Mahsuds (2nd-March-10 August) were the only definite series of operations needed in 1917. The capture of Baghdad, reported in March, gratified Indian feeling and impressed the tribes. The Mahsuds of Southern Waziristan attacked and surrounded
Chief Petty Officer MFA/2932, H.M. Yacht
"Iolaire.", Royal Navy, who died on Wednesday, 1st January
1919. Age 45. Son of Richard and Urina Henley; husband of Elizabeth
Jane Henley, of Newlands, St. Helen's, Isle of Wight.
Cemetery: ST. HELENS CHURCHYARD, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Lieutenant 51st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F, who
died on Wednesday, 4th April 1917. Age 33. Son of William Henry and
Catherine Henley; husband of Janet Isabelle Henley, of
"Arthurville", Central Avenue, Mosman, New South Wales.
Native of Kennington, London, England.
Cemetery: POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA
BOISSELLE, Somme, France. Panel Number: II. J. 5.
Location: Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres
north-east of Albert, and the Cemetery, which is enclosed by the
Pozieres Memorial, is a little south-west of the village on the north
side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.
Historical Information: The village of Pozieres was
attacked on the 23rd July, 1916, by the 1st Australian and 48th
(South Midland) Divisions, and was taken on the following day. It was
lost on the 24th-25th March, 1918, and recaptured by the 17th
Division on the following 24th August. In the immediate neighbourhood
are the Battle Memorials of the 1st and 2nd Australian Divisions, the
Tank Corps and the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Plot II of the cemetery
contains the original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by
fighting units and Field Ambulances; 57 German graves, made during
their occupation in 1918, have been removed to another cemetery. The
remaining plots were made after the Armistice by the concentration of
graves from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery.
The great majority of the graves thus brought in are those of
soldiers who fell in the Autumn of 1916, but a few represent the
fighting in August, 1918. There are now nearly 3,000, 1914-18 war
casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 1,000 are
unidentified and special memorials are erected to 18, soldiers from
Australia, two from the United Kingdom and one from Canada, known or
believed to be buried among them. The cemetery covers an area of
7,193 square metres. It is enclosed by buildings and walls on which
are carved the names of those who fell in the Retreat of the Fifth
Army in 1918 and whose graves are not known; this Memorial will be
the subject of a separate Register The following were among the more
important burial grounds from which British graves were concentrated
to Pozieres British Cemetery:- CASUALTY CORNER CEMETERY,
CONTALMAISON, on the road from Pozieres to Fricourt, used in the
summer and autumn of 1916 and containing the graves of 21 Canadian
soldiers, 21 Australian and 13 from the United Kingdom. DANUBE POST
CEMETERY, THIEPVAL (named from a trench and a Dressing Station),
between the site of Thiepval village and Mouquet Farm. Here were
buried, in the winter of 1916-17, 34 soldiers from the United
Kingdom, mainly of the R.F.A. NAB JUNCTION CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA
BOISSELLE, at the crossing of the Thiepval-Pozieres Road and "Nab
Valley", in which 60 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one
German prisoner were buried in the winter of 1916-17.
who died on Tuesday, 19th November 1940. Age 47. of 72
Prince Albert Street, Small Heath. Wife of B. Henley. at 72 Prince
Albert Street.
COUNTY BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM, Section of the Civilian War Dead Register
Private G/25409 "C" Coy. 7th Bn., The
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.), who died on Saturday, 23rd March
1918. Age 19. Son of Henry W. and Susan Henley, of Merrifields,
Cuckfield, Sussex.
Memorial: POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel
Number: Panel 14 and 15
Location: Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres
north-east of the town of Albert. The Memorial encloses Pozieres
British Cemetery which is a little south-west of the village on the
north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres. On the
road frontage is an open arcade terminated by small buildings and
broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along the sides and
the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing
the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments. It should be
added that, although the memorial stands in a cemetery of largely
Australian graves, it does not bear any Australian names. The
Australian soldiers who fell in France and whose graves are not known
are commemorated on the National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
Historical Information: The Memorial relates to the
period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Fifth Army was
driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme
battlefields, and to the succeeding period of four months during
which there was built up, behind the new front, of the army, which on
the 8 August 1918 began the Advance to Victory. The Memorial
commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of
the South African Forces who have no known grave and who fell in
France during the Fifth Army area retreat on the Somme from 21 March
to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented
are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light Infantry
with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500,
The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse
and Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names.
Lieutenant H.M.S. Kimberley, Royal Navy, who died on
Monday, 12th January 1942. Age 22. Son of Captain Charles Beauclerk
Henley, R.I.N., and of N. Barbara Henley (nee Stranack), of
Littlehampton, Sussex.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire, United
Kingdom. Panel Number: Panel 62, Column 1.
Location: The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common
overlooking the promenade, and is accessible at all times.
Historical Information: PORTSMOUTH MEMORIAL REGISTER. The first part (1914) records particulars of the loss of 1,917 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 1,524 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Good Hope" and "Bulwark". The second part (1915) records particulars of the loss of 972 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 536 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Viknor", "Bayano", "Goliath", "Princess Irene", "Lynx", and "Natal", and of four civilians employed by the Admiralty. The third, fourth and fifth parts (1916, divided alphabetically into three parts) record particulars of the loss of 4,485 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 567 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Black Prince", "Defence", "Indefatigable", "Invincible", "Queen Mary", "Tipperary", and "Hampshire", and of eight civilians employed by the Admiralty. The sixth part (1917) records particulars of the loss of 1,269 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 443 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Ghurka", "Paragon", "Vanguard", "Begonia", "Partridge", and "Torrent", and of five civilians employed by the Admiralty. The seventh part (1918-21) records particulars of the loss of 1,086 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 249 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Narborough", "Opal", "Louvain", and "Glatton", and of four civilians employed by the Admiralty. Each entry in these Registers represents untimely death, and the bereavement of a family. Together they represent the price paid by those families and the Empire for keeping our shores inviolate; for moving here and there, as we would, greater Armies than the Empire had ever before dreamed of raising; for confining to its harbours, during almost the whole of four years, the greatest Navy except our own; for annihilating enemy sea borne trade; and for a decisive share in breaking the aggressive spirit of the German Government and people.
Second Lieutenant "C" Bty. 156th Bde., Royal
Field Artillery, who died onSunday, 21st January 1917. Age 32. Son of
Joseph Warton Henley and Lillie Henley, of "Jarrahdale,"
West Beach, Herne Bay, Kent.
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais,
France. Panel Number: I. A. 80.
Location: Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south
of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on
the west side of the road to Boulogne.
Historical Information: During the 1914-18 war, the
neighbourhood of the Cemetery became the scene of immense
concentrations of British reinforcement camps and of British
hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and it
was accessible by railway from either the northern or the southern
battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand
dunes, and the hospitals (which included eleven General, one
Stationary and four Red Cross Hospitals and a Convalescent Depot)
could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months
after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. Convalescent
Depot remained. The earliest burial in the Cemetery dates from May
1915. There are now nearly 11,000, 1914-18 war casualties
commemorated in this site and over 100 from the 1939-45 War. The
cemetery covers an area of 59,049 square metres. The graves lie below
three terraces, the midmost of which carries the War Stone and two
pylons, and the highest is dominated by the Cross.
Private 5512940 5th Bn., Hampshire Regiment, who died
on Wednesday, 13th October 1943. Age 35. Son of Jim and Edith Henley;
husband of Edith Eleanor Henley, of New Radnor, Radnorshire.
Cemetery: MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY, Italy. Panel Number:
V, D, 8.
Location: Minturno is about 78 kilometres north of
Naples, close to the coast. The cemetery lies several kilometres
south of the town on the SS7 road to Naples and is situated in the
locality of Marina di Minturno (Garigliano). To reach the cemetery
take the Cassino exit from the A1 motorway, then turn right to follow
Ausonia, Formia, Minturno. At about 30 km the road runs tangientially
to a flyover. Go under the flyover, turn left and get on it towards
Scauri and Naples, then leave it at about 6 km, turning right to
Marina di Minturno. The cemetery is permanently open and may be
visited anytime.
Historical Information: Minturno War Cemetery lies close to the western end of the German winter line of 1943-44, known as the Gustav Line. On this sector of the line the 10th Corps attacked across the River Garigliano on 17th January 1944; by the 19th the 5th Division had taken Minturno. The site for the cemetery was chosen in January 1944, but the 10th Corps then lost ground, the site came under German small-arms fire, and the cemetery could not be used again until May 1944 when the Allies launched their final advance on Rome and the US 85th and 88th Divisions were in this sector. The burials are mainly those of the heavy casualties incurred in crossing the Garigliano.
Private 8/13081 8th Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment, who
died on Wednesday, 6th October 1915. Age 20. Son of Walter and Sarah
Elizabeth Henley, of Southmoor, Abingdon, Berks.
Cemetery: KINGSTON BAGPUIZE (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCHYARD, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Pioneer 172017, Imperial Signal Coy., Royal Engineers,
who died on Monday, 9th December 1918. Age 32. Husband of Rose Henly,
of 8, Staines St., Canton, Cardiff.
Cemetery: DAR ES SALAAM (UPANGA ROAD) CEMETERY,
Tanzania. Panel Number: VII. D. 7.
Location: The cemetery is on the right
(eastern/coastal) side of Upanga Road, which runs north-west from the
centre of the city. (Upanga Road eventually becomes Bagamoyo Road)
The cemetery fronts directly onto the road, about 250 metres
north-west of the Sheraton Hotel if coming from the centre of Dar-Es-Salaam.
Historical Information: This cemetery was opened as a
War Cemetery in March 1918, when the European Section of Ocean Road
Cemetery was closed. After the Armistice British and German graves
were concentrated into this site from other burial grounds, (Kidete,
Lansi and Utete Cemeteries). Within the cemetery, at the far end of
main pathway and behind the Cross of Sacrifice, stands the Tanganyika
Memorial. This commemorates over 350 men who died in Tanganyika
during the 1939-1945 War while serving in the East African Forces,
whose graves are so situated that maintenance cannot be assured, or
else cannot be located. There is also a screen wall feature
commemorating casualties who were buried at Pugu Road Cemetery but
whose graves could not be maintained.
Rifleman R/886 11th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps,
Labour Corps, who died on Thursday, 27th February 1919. Age 33. Son
of Joseph and Sarah Ann Henley; husband of Leah Henley, of 6/18,
Essington St., Birmingham.
Cemetery: BIRMINGHAM (WITTON) CEMETERY, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Panel Number: 64. 08617.
Musician RMB/1834 H.M.S. "Indefatigable.",
Royal Marine Band, who died onWednesday, 31st May 1916.
Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire, United
Kingdom. Panel Number: 22.
Location: The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common
overlooking the promenade, and is accessible at all times.
Historical Information: PORTSMOUTH MEMORIAL REGISTER.
The first part (1914) records particulars of the loss of 1,917 ranks
and ratings of the Royal Navy, 1,524 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Good
Hope" and "Bulwark". The second part (1915) records
particulars of the loss of 972 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy,
536 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Viknor", "Bayano",
"Goliath", "Princess Irene", "Lynx",
and "Natal", and of four civilians employed by the
Admiralty. The third, fourth and fifth parts (1916, divided
alphabetically into three parts) record particulars of the loss of
4,485 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy, 567 of whom fell in H.M.S.
"Black Prince", "Defence",
"Indefatigable", "Invincible", "Queen
Mary", "Tipperary", and "Hampshire", and of
eight civilians employed by the Admiralty. The sixth part (1917)
records particulars of the loss of 1,269 ranks and ratings of the
Royal Navy, 443 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Ghurka",
"Paragon", "Vanguard", "Begonia",
"Partridge", and "Torrent", and of five civilians
employed by the Admiralty. The seventh part (1918-21) records
particulars of the loss of 1,086 ranks and ratings of the Royal Navy,
249 of whom fell in H.M.S. "Narborough", "Opal",
"Louvain", and "Glatton", and of four civilians
employed by the Admiralty. Each entry in these Registers represents
untimely death, and the bereavement of a family. Together they
represent the price paid by those families and the Empire for keeping
our shores inviolate; for moving here and there, as we would, greater
Armies than the Empire had ever before dreamed of raising; for
confining to its harbours, during almost the whole of four years, the
greatest Navy except our own; for annihilating enemy sea borne trade;
and for a decisive share in breaking the aggressive spirit of the
German Government and people.
Lance Corporal 14414426 7th Bn., Hampshire Regiment,
who died on Tuesday, 1st August 1944. Age 18. Son of Victor E. and
Daisy Henley, of Bembridge, Isle of Wight.
Cemetery: BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France. Panel
Number: III. C. 5.
Location: The town of Bayeux, in Normandy, lies 24
kilometres north-west of Caen. Bayeux War Cemetery is situated in the
south-western outskirts of the town on the by-pass, which is named
Rue de Sir Fabian Ware. On the opposite side of the road stands the
Bayeux Memorial.
Historical Information: Bayeux was the first French
town of importance to be liberated from the Germans in June 1944. The
are now over 4,000, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Private 6180 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent
Regiment), who died on Wednesday, 23rd May 1917. Age 18. Son of John
and Harriett Ada Henley, of Yalding, Kent.
Cemetery: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais,
France. Panel Number: XXV. D. 14A.
Location: Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south
of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on
the west side of the road to Boulogne.
Historical Information: During the 1914-18 war, the neighbourhood of the Cemetery became the scene of immense concentrations of British reinforcement camps and of British hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and it was accessible by railway from either the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes, and the hospitals (which included eleven General, one Stationary and four Red Cross Hospitals and a Convalescent Depot) could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. Convalescent Depot remained. The earliest burial in the Cemetery dates from May 1915. There are now nearly 11,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site and over 100 from the 1939-45 War. The cemetery covers an area of 59,049 square metres. The graves lie below three terraces, the midmost of which carries the War Stone and two pylons, and the highest is dominated by the Cross.
Private 266820 1st/6th Bn., Welsh Regiment, who died
on Friday, 9th November 1917.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel Number: Panel 93 to 94
Location: The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332).
Private 11751 3rd Bn., Coldstream Guards, who died on
Saturday, 6th February 1915. Age 24. Son of the late Francis Thomas
and Mary Jane Henley.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
Panel Number: Panels 2 and 3
Location: Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. From Bethune follow the signs for Armentieres until you are on the D171. Continue on this road through Essars and Le Touret village. Approximately 1 kilometre after Le Touret village and about 5 kilometres before you reach the intersection with the D947, Estaires to La Bassee road, the Cemetery lies on the right hand side of the road. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
Serjeant 2000 8th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, who died
on Wednesday, 24th November 1915. Age 23. Son of Charles William and
Annie Henley, of Portslade, Sussex.
Cemetery: STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE,
Seine-Maritime, France. Panel Number: Div. 19. L. 9.
Location: Ste. Marie Cemetery is one of the town
cemeteries, but it is actually situated in the commune of
Graville-St. Honorine. It stands on the ridge overlooking Le Havre
from the north and is north of the N.182.
Historical Information: During the 1914-18 war Le Havre was one of the ports at which the British Expeditionary Force disembarked in August 1914, and, except for a short interval during the German advance in 1914, it remained No. 1 Base throughout the war. By the end of May, 1917, it contained 3 general and 2 stationary hospitals, and 4 convalescent depots. During the latter part of the 1939-45 war Le Havre was used as a supply and reinforcement base. There are now over 1,500, 1914-18 and 350, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this cemetery. In addition, special memorial records the names of 144 who lost their lives when the hospital ships 'Galeka' and 'Salta' and the transport ship 'Normandy' were sunk in the Channel by the enemy, between 1916-18 and whose bodies were not recovered.
Private 1836 12th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F, who
died on Saturday, 19th August 1916. Age 20. Son of William Ring
Henley and Lily Catherine Henley, of 30, Queen's St., Paddington, New
South Wales. Born at Hobart, Tasmania.
Memorial: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL, Somme,
FranceLocation: Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of
Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Memorial stands
in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, which is about 2 kilometres
north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
Historical Information: The Australian National Memorial was erected to commemorate Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. These soldiers fell in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras and the "Hundred Days". There are now over 10,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated on this memorial.
Guardsman 2736939 Welsh Guards, who died on Wednesday,
4th December 1940. Age 19. Son of George and Fanny Henley, of
Birchgrove, Glamorgan.
Cemetery: ESHER (EAST MOLESEY) CEMETERY, Surrey, United Kingdom. Panel Number: C. Grave 1021.