Captain Henry Basil Strutt Handford

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of Major Henry Handford and The Hon. Mary Emily Handford, of Elmfield, Southwell, Notts Educated at Rugby and Trinity College Cambridge, where he took a 2nd Class in the first part of the law tripos in 1914. Joined the 8th Sherwood Foresters as Second Lieutenant 13th July 1912, was promoted Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 and Captain 26th April 1915. Volunteered for foreign service in August 1914, leaving his law course unfinished, went to France 25th February 1915 and was killed in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt 15th October 1915, aged 21.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, 1914-1918

Buried/Commemorated : Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Loos Memorial, France.

Captain Henry Basil Strutt Handford is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

His brother Lieutenant Everard Francis Sale Handford, 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment was also killed in the same action on the same day.