Name
George Cecil Henry
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/12/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Suffolk Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
C. 37.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED HUSBAND OF DOROTHY HENRY OF BERKHAMSTED,HERTS. NEVER FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
George Cecil Henry was born on 8 June 1887 in Hastings, Sussex, the son of Thomson Henry and Cora Augusta Henry. He was baptised on 19 July 1893 along with his younger brother Hubert Leslie at St John's Church, Sparkhill, Worcester.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Station Road, Stainland with Old Lindley, Yorkshire, where his father was working as an agricultural contractor and his mother was a school mistress.
He married May Dorothy Norris on 4 August 1917 in Great Berkhamsted, Herts. Her address was given following his death as 35 Cowper Road, Berkhamsted, Herts. She was living there in 1921 with her widowed mother Emma Norris, and working as a shorthand typist.
Wartime Service
He joined the Officer Training Corps as Private 10255, was later commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and served in Egypt from 8 November 1917.
George died from wounds on 9 December 1917 aged 30 and is buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £70 15s 1d.
N.B. Original CWGC records show that George was listed as being in the 15th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment although the official record is shown as the 3rd Battalion. Most historical sources suggest that the 3rd Battalion did not leave England throughout WW1, whereas the 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion was formed in Egypt on 5 January 1917.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
