Name
Ronald Henry White Henderson
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
Ronald Henderson was born 1st December 1893 at Chelsea. He was one of four children born to Henry William and Elvira Henderson. Henry, a Stock-broker, was recorded as resident of 9 Prince’s Gate Gardens in London at the time of the 1901 Census. He employed thirteen servants at this property, however at the same time the family resided at Serge Hill, on the outskirts of Bedmond. Henry took a great interest in the local affairs of Abbots Langley and when his wife suddenly died in 1901 he financed the building of a Village Hall – the Henderson Hall – which was opened in 1902 in memory of his late wife.
The London Gazette listed Ronald Henderson graduating from the Royal Military College to become a Second Lieutenant in the 1st (Royal) Dragoons on 25th February 1914. Ronald was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in September 1914, and his Medal Roll noted that he embarked for France on 8th October 1914.
In the Parish Magazine of November 1914 Vicar Parnell noted,
“We deeply regret to hear that Lieut. Ronald Henderson is reported "wounded". We sincerely wish him a speedy recovery”.
Ronald recovered and served with the Dragoons for the remainder of the War. His Service Record has not survived, so little is known about his time in the Army.
On 1st February 1917 Ronald married Marjorie May Garrard at the Brompton Holy Trinity Church. In the 1901 Census the Garrard family were living at “Lockyers”, Bury Hill, Hemel Hempstead, and Marjorie’s father Sebastian’s occupation was a Goldsmith. By 1911 the family had moved to Welton Place at Daventry in Northamptonshire. Hugh Chetwode Henderson was born on 27th November 1918, and two more children followed in May 1920 (John) and December 1923 (Elvira).
Ronald Henderson survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
