Name
Henry Lawrence Branscomb Stowell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/18738
King's Royal Rifle Corps
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
III. E. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Hoddesdon Congregational Church Memorial, Broxbourne C Of E Primary School Memorial, Broxbourne(*1)
Pre War
Born in 1890 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Henry William and Sarah Elizabeth Stowell and was living in Noble Villas, Ware Road, Hoddesdon in 1911. He was a grocer’s assistant.
*1 It is likely that this is the man schooled at Broxbourne C Of E Primary School, Broxbourne.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Holloway, Middlesex and died of wounds probably in one of the hospitals in Mericourt-L’Abbe on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
