Name
Henry Janes
27 Feb 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
PO/17361
Royal Marine Light Infantry
1st R.M. Bn. R.N. Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
QUEENS CEMETERY, BUCQUOY
II. M. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Henry Janes was born on 27 Feb 1893 in Tring to Job Janes, a domestic gardener, and Ruth (nee Collyer).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Lucy (born 1877), Edith (born 187), Lizzie (born 1881, Thomas (born 1884), Robert (born 1884), Amy (born 1889) and Emily (born (1891) were living at the Grove, Tring.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Robert, Amy, Emily, Henry, Ethel May (born 1898 and grandson Albert (born 1901) were living at the Grove, Tring.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, Robert (grocery assistant), Henry (apprentice whitesmith) and Albert were living at 33, Kimberley Terrace, Tring.
Wartime Service
Henry enlisted on 10 Aug 1914 in Tring for the Royal Marines Light Infantry as Private 17361 and was sent to Royal Marines Depot at Deal, before being transferred on 19 Nov 1914 to Portsmouth gaining the Prefix PO to his service number. On 20 Nov 1914 he was classed as being on the complement of Victory RM Brigade, an administrative device as Henry already have been serving Royal Marine Brigade in Gallipoli and later Egypt following the evacuation of the peninsula.
before landing in Marseilles in May 1916 to become part of 1st Royal Marine Battalion in the newly formed 63rd (Royal Naval) Division. They were deployed to the Somme taking part in the Battle of Ancre (13-18 Nov 1916) and Operations on the Ancre 11 Jan- Mar 1917). These were minor actions to gain high ground.
Judging from the date of Corporal Janes’s death (17 Feb 1917), and the location of his unit at the time, it appears likely that he was killed during The Actions of Miraumont (17-18 Feb 1917).
Additional Information
Henry is also commemorated on his sister’s grave in Tring Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO OF HENRY JANES, BROTHER OF THE ABOVE (Amy Janes)
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION FEBRUARY 17TH 1917, AGED 23 YEARS.
"Gone but not forgotten."
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
