Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Thiepval Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
28 Apr 1916	~	Stockton
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Battle of Delville Wood (Somme)	15 Nov 1915 at Wrexham	~
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
NE of Bazentine le Petit	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

The second assault on High Wood was planned for 19 July. The main assault was by Scottish troops from 1 Bn Cameronians, 5 Bn Scottish Rifles and 20 Bn Royal Fusiliers, The Public Schools Battalion. The 2 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers had been in billets at Mametz Wood. At midnight on the night of 19 July they moved up to Flatiron Copse as brigade reserves. They were heavily shelled from 3.00am until 8.00am and then intermittently until mid-day when they were ordered forward to High Wood which they reached at about 2.00pm, The wood had only been partially captured by the assault troops, the Welshmen were to capture the rest. This they managed to do but only after heavy fighting to reach the eastern side, here, because of machine gun fire from a German position known as the Switch, they had to retreat to establish and dig a defensive line about 100 yards from the edge of the wood where they spent the rest of the day and through to 1.00am on the 21 July when they were relieved and returned to billets at Mametz Wood. Casualties were Officers 2 killed and 9 wounded, ORs 29 killed, 180 wounded and 29 missing including Henry. Courtesy of Men on the Gates