Name
Henry George Raphael
14 August 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
East Lancashire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Henry (Harry) George Wellington Raphael was born on 14 August 1893 in Hampstead, London, the only son of George and Elizabeth Raphael, and had one sister Kate.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 42 Priory Road, Hampstead where his father was working as a Cigar Manufacturer Sister Kate and three servants.
He studied at University College School, Hampstead and later spent a year in Germany.
His father died in January 1911 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother at 7 Belsize Park, Hampstead with three servants and a sick nurse. His maternal aunt Katherine Marks was also living there. Seventeen year old George was said to have a 'situation in an optical establishment'.
Mother later lived at Saxonhurst, Murray, Northwood, Middx.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Henry enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company and obtained a commission on 26 March 1915 with the East Lancashire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. Whilst serving with the the 7th battalion he was invalided back to England in October 1916. He returned to the Front in January 1917 and was killed in action on 31 July 1917, aged 23, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchedaele).
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
(N.B. His medal card states shows no medals awarded because of no overseas service, however this is obviously incorrect and e was probably eligible to received the British War Medal and Victory Medal and possibly the 1914/1915 Star also.)
Additional Information
Probate of Henry's estate was obtained on 21 December 1917 in London by executor Glynn Henry Reginald Barton, Lt. Tank Corps, on 21 Dec 1917 in London with effects of £5095 18s 9d which included a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £84 13s 6d.
This soldier's connection with Berkhamsted is not known.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.jewsfww.uk, theyserved.fandom.com/wiki, www.jewishnews.co.uk/passchendaele
