Person    | Male  Born 1893  Died 25/4/1918

Lieutenant Henry George Easterbrook

Categories: Armed Forces

Countries: France

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Lieutenant Henry George Easterbrook

Henry George Easterbrook was the son of Henry George Easterbrook (1871-1908) and Ellen Mary Easterbrook née Taylor (1872-1965). His birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1893 in the Watford registration district, Hertfordshire and he was baptised on 7 May 1873 in St Mary's Church, Watford. His father was a grocer.

His sister, Dorothy Ellen Easterbrook (1896-1995) was born on 10 January 1896 in the St George, Hanover Square registration district, Westminster.

He was described in the 1911 census as a railway clerk living in a seven roomed property at 40 King Street Mews, Mayfair (now called Culross Street), the home of his maternal grandparents Archibald Grant Taylor (1845-1936) a coachman and Mary Taylor, their son John Taylor, together with his widowed mother and his sister. 

He was serving as a Lieutenant in 'D' Company of the 9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) when he died of wounds, aged 25 years, on 25 April 1918 and was buried in Plot 6, Row H, Grave 13 in Mont Huon Military Cemetery, 2 Rue Albert Edward Dixon, 76470 Le Tréport, France.

Probate records show his address to have been Hedgerley Cottage, The Tilt, Cobham, Surrey, a Lieutenant in the 9th London Regiment who died 25 April 1918 in France. Administration was granted on 3 December 1918 to his widowed mother. His effects totalled £154-9s-3d.

By 18 December 1919 his army effects totalling £127-17s-8d, including his £5-0s-0d war gratuity, were sent to his mother who was his sole administratrix.

His medal card shows that on 22 September 1921 his mother applied for his posthumously awarded British War Medal 1914-1918 and Victory Medal. These were sent to her at 35 Westbury Avenue, Wembley, Middlesex.

He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website, the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website, as Henry G. Easterbrook on the City and Midland Bank - WW1 memorial and as Easterbrook. G. Lieut. 9th.Lon.Batt. on the Quebec Chapel war memorial.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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