Name
Henry William Garratt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
79015
Royal Garrison Artillery
162nd Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
I. B. 39.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath,
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar,
All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Little Heath in 1887. In the 1911 census he was a nurseryman boarding in Coopers Road, Little Heath. He married Agnes Edith Clapton 16 April 1911 and they had two daughters Gladys Louisa Agnes(1911) and Beatrice May(1915). They were living in Frampton Road when Beatrice was baptised at Christ Church on 1 August 1915.
Wartime Service
Attested 2 May 1916 at Whitehall, London while living at 20 Frampton Road, Little Heath. Posted to No1 depot 2 May 1916. Posted to 40th Training Company at Dover17 May 1916. Posted to 162nd Siege Battery 6 June 1916. Landed in Le Havre, France 5 September 1916. Died of wounds. Admitted to hospital wounded 8 May 1917. The battery war diary states “5 a.m., Bombardment of S.O.S. lines. Battery dug out heavily shelled, 3 dugouts blown in, 7 OR killed by shellfire, 7 O.R. wounded, (3 of whom died).” Most probably this was during the German offensive against Fresnoy.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope