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Henry Prentice of Stratford, Warwickshire, England
By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Summer 2005 and Revised 3 Dec 2005
Update of 3 Dec 2005: Henry Prentice is the son of Mary Prentice, #20.2 in our Spring 1999 article about Zachariah Prentice of Brookingssd.htm . That article now replaces this article.
1. Henry Prentice was b. c. 1857, Stratford on Avon, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He is not in the 1871 or 1881 census but does appear in the 1891 and 1901 Bengewith, Evesham, Worcestershire Co. census with his wife, Alice, b. c. 1857, North Littleton, Worcestershire, and children:
- Charles Prentice, b. c. 1884, Evesham
- Mary Prentice, b. c. 1886, Evesham
- William Prentice, b. c. 1887, Evesham
- Owen Prentice, b. c. 1888, Evesham
- Frank E. Prentice,b. c. 1890, Evesham
- Frederick E. Prentice, b. c. 1891, Evesham. . . . . . . . [2]
- Marion Prentice (dau.), b. c. 1893, Evesham
- Elizabeth Prentice, b. c. 1895, Evesham
- Oliver Prentice,b. c. 1898, Evesham
- Howard Prentice, b. c. 1900, Evesham.
2. Frederick E. Prentice, b. c. 1890, Evesham. Although the middle initial is different, he is almost certainly the same person as the Frederick John Prentice shown in WW I death records as a Private, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn. who died at age 23 on 21 Oct 1914, and who is identified as the son of T. Henry and Alice Prentice of 40 Church St., Bengeworth, Evesham, Worcester. His memorial can be found at Panel 19, Le Touret Memorial. A Google search discloses the following information:
The Le Touret Memorial commemorates 13,479 British soldiers who fell in the fighting from October 1914 until 24th September 1915, when the Loos Memorial takes over. Geographically it covers an area enclosed in the north by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and in the south by the former wartime boundary of the First Army at Grenay. As such the following major battles and actions are represented by the commemorations on this memorial:
The Battle of La Bassée: 10th October - 2nd November 1914 The Defence of Festubert & Givenchy: November-December 1914 Cuinchy & First Givenchy: January-March 1915 Neuve Chapelle: 10th-13th March 1915 Aubers Ridge: 9th May 1915 Festubert: 15th-25th May 1915 Givenchy: June-September 1915The memorial is located in the grounds of Le Touret Military Cemetery, Festubert. It takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall, and both are prolonged to the north and south, forming a long gallery where nearly half the names are listed. The stone for this memorial came from Nimes.
The vast majority of those commemorated at Le Touret were regular soldiers or territorials, who began to arrive in this sector from late 1914 onwards. A handful of men from Kitchener's Army units are also found here, from those formations that were among the first to arrive in France in the Spring of 1915. Since the memorial was built, the remains of at least 31 soldiers have been found on the battlefields.
In reviewing the 1871 census, we find 3 possibilities for Henry's parents:
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