Name
Henry (Harry) Lazenby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36205
Gloucestershire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SOISSONS MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary’s Church Memorial Book, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in West Derby in Liverpool. He came from Birmingham in 1916 to join the North Herts Mail where he became a well-liked and talented reporter. He won a County Scholarship to the Strand School at King's College, London and he was also a member of the Hertfordshire Branch of the National Union of Journalists.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin and was allocated Regimental Number 36205 and posted to the 8th Service Battalion which was part of the 57th Brigade in the 19th Division. He was killed in action in France.
For the series of attacks known as the Offensive in Champagne, the Division moved up to the line during the night of the 28/29th May 1918 in buses and came under the control of IX Corps which in turn was under the control of the 6th French Army.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on the Soissons Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
