Henry William Huckle

Name

Henry William Huckle

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

05/09/1918
32

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Second Lieutenant
Cambridgeshire Regiment
1st Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
V. M. 4.
France

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin

Pre War

Son of Henry and Emma Elizabeth Huckle, of Hitchin. He was his parents' second son and they lived at 70 Bancroft, Hitchin. His wife was Mrs M.A.E. Huckle of Tourmaline, Trumpington, Cambridge and they had two children. Henry was educated by W.H. English of Tilehouse Street, Hitchin and later took a B.A. degree at Downing College, Cambridge.

He was employed by the Oxford and Cambridge Local Centres Board in Cambridge.

Wartime Service

He enlisted into the Artists Rifles in March 1917 and received his commission into the Cambridgeshire Regiment early in 1918. His Battalion was in the 35th Brigade of the 12th Division in the III Corps of the 4th Army. He had only been in France for three weeks when, leading his men into action for the first time, he was hit in the left side by machine-gun fire and killed instantly at Curlu, north east of Peronne.

He is buried in Plot 5, Row M, Grave 4 in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, St. Radegonde, France.

Additional Information

Henry is also commemorated on a headstone in Hitchin Cemetery. The inscription reads:

Acknowledgments

Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild