Name
Henry Hucklesby (poss Huckleby)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203486
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 82 to 85 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden High Street Methodist Church Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Henry was born in 1897 in Harpenden to Walter Hucklesby, a bricklayer, and Lizzie (nee Hardy). The family lived on Station Road, Harpenden. On the 1911 Census Henry was at school but living with his elder brothers William, who was married, and Herbert at Connaught Road, Leytonstone.
Wartime Service
Henry was enlisted in the West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s Own) as Private 203486 and went to France to join 1/4 Battalion which had been with BEF since April 1915. In the German Spring Offensive, the Battle of Messines was fought on 10/11 April 1918 to stem the German Advance. Henry died on 10 April 1918, his remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History
Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
