Name
Henry (Harry) Brackley
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/03/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
134574
Royal Garrison Artillery
76th Siege Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. HILAIRE CEMETERY, FREVENT
IV. A. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
OUT OF SIGHT BUT NOT OUT OF MIND. NANCE
UK & Other Memorials
Tring War Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, New Mill Baptist Church, Tring
Pre War
Henry (Harry) Brackley was born in 1887 in Wendover, Bucks, the son of James and Eliza Brackley and one of eight children although one died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Uphill Farm, Wendover, Bucks, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They had moved to Tring, Herts by 1901 and were living at Marchcroft, where his father was working as a carter on a farm. They remained there in 1911 and Harry was then working as a grocer's porter.
He married Annie Eliza Proctor on 16 December 1914 at Berkhamsted and they had a son Thomas Henry born on 24 October 1915. At the time of enlistment he was living at 20 King Street, Tring and working as scullery man.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 17 November 1915 at Watford and placed into the army reserve, not being mobilised until 7 December 1916 when he was posted as a Gunner with the 76th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery initially serving at home but then being sent to France on 11 September 1917.
Henry died of wounds at the 6th Stationary Hospital at Frevent in France on 24 March 1918 and is buried in St Hilaire Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £10 5s 3d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d a week for herself and her child. She remarried to William Harding in 1926.
Brother to Thomas Brackley who served with the Grenadier Guards and was killed in action on 17 October 1915. He is also named on the Tring Memorials.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.roll-of-honour.com
