Henry had been brought up on Raincliffe Avenue (number 5) by his parents William and Agnes and up until 1906 was a fireman in Filey.  At this date, when he was 23, he was offered a job in Nottingham with the City Fire Brigade, which he accepted and consequently moved.  He met his wife there and they settled at 86, Goldsmith St. until the beginning of the war when he enlisted into the Pioneer company of the 7^th Battalion, Notts. and Derby Regt. (Sherwood Forresters).  Henry successfully completed training and saw action in France at Neuve Chapelle and St. Eloi, both major battles, before he was finally killed in action and laid to rest in Vermelles cemetery.

          He was particularly known by many of the 5^th Yorkshire’s (Tommy Jenkinson’s battalion), as before moving away he had spent some time in the territorials (this was when the battalion was still known as the Scarborough Rifles).