Name
Henry George Pavitt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/11/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201253
Essex Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
"C" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY
L. 35.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Village Memorial
Pre War
The Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Henry was born North Ockenden, Essex and was living there when he enlisted in Grays.
Another source suggest he was born in Matching near Old Harlow in 1890.
By 1901, the family had moved to Old Road, Harlow and in 1911, Henry was a ‘House Painter’.
Wartime Service
Originally service number 3689 and then later probably in 1917 given the service number 201253, Henry was enlisted into the 4th Battalion Essex Regiment, and after training was sent to Egypt in defence of the Suez Canal.
In 1917, with the Ottoman Turks in retreat, Henry’s Battalion moved to assault Gaza. It was in the Third Battle of Gaza that Henry Pavitt was mortally wounded. Although evacuated back to hospital at Alexandria, Henry Pavitt died of his wounds 25 November 1917. He was aged 27.
Henry Pavitt is buried at Ramleh War Cemetery, Egypt.
Acknowledgments
Douglas Coe
