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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.

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