WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial - Corporal Robert Reynolds Henshaw
Service Record
| 280231 | Corporal Robert Reynolds Henshaw | Age 33 Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps), S. Nottinghamshire Hussars Battalion |
Born 1885 |
| Drowned on 27/05/1918 due to torpedoing of HM Troopship Leasowe Castle
off Alexandria. Background details at http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/ww1_piggin.shtml |
Drowned at sea, body not recovered. Commemorated on Chatby Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt Also on family grave kerb stones in Bingham cemetery. Educated at Mundella High School, The Meadows, Nottingham and remembered on their war memorial, now in St Mary’s Church. |
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| 1917/18 | South Notts Hussars was a volunteer cavalry force. They were Territorials and could not be compelled to serve outside this country. Volunteers to serve outside this country were put in 1st Brigade (Robert was one such volunteer). The Brigade saw service in Gallipoli, Salonika in 1917 and in April 1918 they were in Egypt. The brigade along with the Warwickshire Yeomanry was destined to be "unhorsed" and converted to a machine gun corps. On May 26th on a brilliant moonlit night they set sail for Marseilles. About 100 miles from Cairo at 12.25 a.m. the vessel "Leasowe Castle" was torpedoed. It took about 1½ hours before it finally sunk with about 150 men still on board out of a total of some 2300. Included in the loss of life was the ship's Captain. The Notts Hussars lost 8 Officers and 44 other ranks. | ||
| CWGC | Son of Richard Henshaw, of 4, Porchester Villas, Bingham, Notts., and the late Mrs. Henshaw. | ||
| Register of Effects | A single payment of £25.1s.4d. was made on 14th May 1919 to Robert’s father, Richard which included £22.0.0 “War Grant”. | ||
No army records on Ancestry.com. medal card copied
Family history etc
| 280231 | Corporal Robert Reynolds Henshaw | ||
| 1885 | Born Tythby | ||
| Census 1861 | Father: Richard living with parents etc. | substantial farmer at Weston on Trent | |
| Census 1871 | Richard has married Sarah Eliza (b 1851 Alveston) and now living in Shackerstone
Nr Market Bosworth, Leicestershire with: Daughter: Alice, b 1861 |
Farmer with 180 acres, 4 labourers and 4 boys. |
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| 1871-1880 | Sarah Eliza died and Richard married Ann Wilson | ||
| Census 1881 |
Richard Henshaw (father) married second wife, Ann neé Wilson, born
Reynolds 1842 Warsop. She was widowed and was previously married to a farmer
40 years older than her with 900 acres at Fulnetby Hall, Lincolnshire. They lived at The Manor House, Ratcliffe on Soar with: Richard’s Children: Alice Richard, b 1873 Henry, b 1874 Ethel, b1865 And Ann’s children: Eliza, b1872 Julia, b 1874 |
Farmer with 300 acres, 9 labourers and 3 boys. | |
| 1885 1887 1888 |
Robert Reynolds born Tythby Thomas born Tythby Ann Henshaw died |
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| 1891 | Living at Tythby Grange, Tythby with: Father: Richard Henshaw, b1843 Weston on Trent, Derbys Siblings: Thomas Alice M b. 1861 Conglestone, Leics Richard S b. 1873 Conglestone, Leics Ethel b. 1876 Ratcliffe on Soar Also: Mary Augusta Morris, 25 John T Pickwood, 23 William Howitt, 17 Harriet Bagguley, 19 Sarah Holt, 18 |
scholar Farmer Scholar housekeeper to her father articled pupil to Civil Engineer governess agricultural worker agricultural worker housemaid kitchen maid |
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| 1899 | Richard married Mary Augusta Morris at Uppingham in March 1899 | ||
| Census 1901 | Living at Tythby Grange, Tythby with: Father: Richard Henshaw Step-mother: Mary (neé Morris, former governess) also Gertrude Daft Minnie Maria Mitchell |
Scholar Farmer Servant Servant |
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| Census 1911 | Living at Tythby Grange, Tythby with: Father: Richard Henshaw Brother: Thomas Wilfred also: Sarah Ann Gilbert Sarah Burrows |
Scholar Farmer Scholar Cook Housemaid |
Thomas also was killed in WW1 |
| 1914 Nottingham Evening Post |
On 21st July 1914, The following advertisement appeared: Workmen wanted. Young man wanted to live in, must be a good horseman, - Hutchinson, Tythby Grange, Bingham, Notts. This pretty well dates the Henshaw’s move to Bingham. The electoral register for 1918 shows Richard and Mary Henshaw at Porchester Terrace; clearly they had moved in 1914. |
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| 1916 CWGC record |
Son of Richard Henshaw, of 4, Porchester Villas, Bingham, Notts., and the late Mrs. Henshaw. | ||
| BHTA from deeds etc. of 4 Porchester Terrace | Richard lived at 4 Porchester Villas and bought the property as sitting tenant in 1920. His spinster daughter Alice probably lived with him as she was the occupier in 1935. She and her brother Richard Stevenson Henshaw Headlands (Water Engineer) of Wellingborough were executors of Richard’s will dated 1934, with Alice inheriting all. He left his widow a £20 p.a. allowance payable by Alice. Alice died in 1937 and the house was sold to Arthur Morris whose daughter still lives there (2014). | ||
| 1930 1935 |
Step-mother Mary Augusta died aged 68 Father Richard died aged 92 Robert and Thomas remembered on the kerbstones to their grave in Bingham Cemetery, The Banks. |
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| Richard Henshaw moved frequently. The Earl Howe (who lived in Langar) was lord of the manor of each of Shackerstone, Ratcliffe on Soar and Tythby Grange. Farmers were often moved between different estates of the same landlord. | |||