WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 22617 | L/Cpl Thomas Wilfred Henshaw | Age 29 Grenadier Guards 3rd Bttn |
Born 1887 |
| Killed in action on 15/09/1916 |
Commemorated at Thiepval
Memorial 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. |
Pier and Face 8 D | |
| 1916 Army records | In September 1916 The Guards Division was on the Somme Front
in France near the villages of Flers and Courcelette. They were preparing
themselves for the 3rd and final Somme offensive. The plan was to punch
a hole in the German lines and this hole would be exploited by the use of
cavalry. The battle lasted 7 days and although with heavy losses some ground
was captured, lack of resources prevented any advantage to the British. Thomas was killed on the first day - September 15th 1816 |
||
| War Diary | The war diary describes the fire fight in graphic detail. Henshaw was one of 31 other ranks killed that day. | ||
| CWGC | Son of Richard Henshaw, of 4, Porchester Villas, Bingham, Notts., and the late Mrs. Henshaw | ||
| Register of Effects | On 24th February 1917 Thomas’ back pay of £8.8s.4d. was paid to his sister Alice, as sole legatee. His brother’s money had gone to his father. For some reason Thomas chose to leave his money to his sister rather than his father, who was still alive at ths point | On 11th September 1919 his war gratuity of £7.0.0 was also paid to his sister. | |
No army records on Ancestry.com. Click here to view Medal card
Family history etc
| 22617 | L/Cpl Thomas Wilfred Henshaw | ||
| 1887 | Born Tythby | ||
| Census 1861 | Father, Richard living with parents etc. father a 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. |
|
| 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 b 1861 Richard b 1873 Henry 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 Wilfred born Tythby Ann Henshaw died |
||
| 1899 | Richard married Mary Augusta Morris at Uppingham in March 1899 | ||
| 1891 | Living at Tythby Grange, Tythby with: Father: Richard Henshaw, b.1843 Weston on Trent, Derbys Siblings: Robert Alice M b. 1861 Conglestone, Leics Richard S b. 1873 Conglestone, Leics Ethel b. 1876 Ratcliffe on Soar Also: Mary A Morris, 25 John T Pickwood, 23 William Howitt, 17 Harriet Bagguley, 19 Sarah Holt, 18 |
Farmer scholar housekeeper to her father articled pupil to Civil Engineer governess agricultural worker agricultural worker housemaid kitchen maid |
|
| Census 1901 | Living or visiting with Uncle Henry Reynolds, farmer at Gunthorpe. | ||
| Census 1911 | Living at Tythby Grange, Tythby with: Father: Richard Henshaw Brother: Robert Reynolds also: Sarah Ann Gilbert Sarah Burrows |
scholar Farmer scholar Cook Housemaid |
Robert was also 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. |
||
| 1916 CWGC record |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission register, 1918: “Son of Richard Henshaw, of Porchester Villas, Bingham, Notts”. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 1930 1935 Graves |
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. |
||
| 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. | |||