Lance Corporal Henry Caunt

Army Number: 9656

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Nottingham and lived at 12, Hampton Terrace, Howard Street, Nottingham. Son of George and Emma Caunt, of 53, Walker Street, Nottingham. One of five brothers who fought in the war. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.

Lance Corporal Henry Caunt is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brothers Private Arthur Caunt, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and Lance Corporal Frederick Caunt, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.