Name
Henry Deacon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Henry Deacon was recorded in the 1911 Census as Lewis Henry Deacon-Evans. He lived with his mother and father, Edythe and Alfred Evans at the house of his grandfather William Deacon, at “Claremont”, Abbots Road, Abbots Langley. Alfred Evans worked as an Artist, and William Deacon was a retired Civil Servant.
Henry was born in the winter of 1903 at St Albans, and would have been 14 when he enlisted with the Durham Light Infantry. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour first listed him in October 1917. Henry’s Medal Roll indicated that he served with the Durham Light Infantry Army Service Corps. The Roll of Honour listed Henry each month through to the end of the War.
He was listed in the Absent Voter Records and in the Autumn 1919 edition was shown serving as a Private with 2/5th Durham Light Infantry, and gave his address at Abbots Road, Abbots Langley.
Henry Deacon survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
