Private Henry William Blackwell

Army Number: 38890

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Thomas Wallis and Annie Blackwell, of 235, Castle Boulevard, Lenton, Nottingham. He was a window cleaner prior to enlisting 7th December 1915 at Nottingham. He went to France 9th July 1916 and was admitted to 24 General Hospital, Etaples, France, 22nd July 1916 suffering from synovitis of the right knee. He was evacuated to England on Hospital Ship Brighton, 23rd July 1916. On recovery, he returned to France 7th February 1917 and was killed in action, near Polderhoek, Belgium 19th November 1917, aged 35.

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private Henry William Blackwell is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Tom Wallis Blackwell, 8th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.