Name
Harry Prentice
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/07/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2910
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd/1st Bucks Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LAVENTIE MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE
III. C. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Harry Prentice was born in 1898 (Berkhamsted registration district) the son of Fred and Eliza Prentice.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 28 Charles Street, Tring where his father was working as a House Painter. They had moved to 49 King Street, Tring by 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks and served with the 21st Battalion, Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
He was killed in action on 19 July 1916 during the Attack at Fromelles when four waves of men attacked the enemy's trenches but were mown down so that only a few men actually reached the German parapet, and they did not return.
He is buried in Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, France.
Additional Information
His father, F Prentice, 49 King Street, Tring, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN". His father Frederick received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £6 0s 11d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, tringhistory.tringlocalhistorymuseum.org.uk
