Name
Henry (Harry) Marvell
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/08/1916
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3/10436
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11A & 11D
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Codicote Village Memorial, Peace Memorial Hall, Codicote, Worksop Priory Church Roll of Honour, Worksop Cenotaph Memorial
Pre War
Henry Marvell (known as Harry) was born in Stamford, Lincs in 1882, the fifth child of Isaac and Charlotte Marvell and one of eleven children. He was baptised at St Martins, Stamford-Baron, Northamptonshire on 3 December 1882. On the 1891 Census the family were living at 3 Maltings Yard, Stamford where his father was working as a General Labourer. By 1901 they had moved to 45 St Leonards Street, Stamford where they were to live for many years. Henry was then working as a Labourer in a Coal Yard.
Harry enlisted in the army in 1901 (reg. no. 6462) joining the Northamptonshire Regiment and served in the South African Campaign. He served his time and had returned to Stamford and the family home at St Leonards Street by the 1911 Census when he was then working as a Labourer in an Engineering Works.
He married Olive M Baldwin in 1912 in St Albans. She had been born in Codicote and was listed as a domestic servant working in North Finchley on the 1911 Census. They had a daughter Rose in 1913 in Stamford.
(His widow later lived at 1 Gladstone Road, Watford.)
Wartime Service
Harry re-enlisted in Worksop, Notts early in the war and was drafted to France on 12 November 1914, serving with the Northamptonshire Regiment.
He was killed on or after 17 August 1916 near Martipuich, France during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow Olive received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £9 6s 10d.. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week and 5s a week for their daughter. Olive later remarried to Harry Hedger in 1920 in Watford. N.B. Henry's birth is registered in 1882 so he would have been 34 when he died, not 39 as appears in most records.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer, June Colegrove, Roll-of-Honour.com Nottinghamshire Roll of Honour (research by Colin Dannatt)
