Name
Henry Thomas Snow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/08/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15541
Royal Sussex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 20
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin, Stocking Pelham
Pre War
Henry Thomas was the sixth child of Thomas Henry Snow, a master builder, and Annie (nee Rogers) of Willows Farm Stocking Pelham. Henry Thomas was baptised in Furneux Pelham on 29th December 1895. In the 1911 census, Henry Thomas was 15 and described as a builder’s labourer, presumably working for his father.
Wartime Service
Henry enlisted at Bishops Stortford, initially as 2886 in the Hertfordshire Regiment. This would have placed him in ‘C’ company. He later transferred to become G/15541 in the 11th battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. At the time of his death, the battalion were fighting at Pilckem Ridge in the third Battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
The Medal Rolls Index records the award of the British Medal and Victory Medal. His service records have not survived.
Acknowledgments
Dr Stephen Bratt
