Private John Henley

Army Number: 8523

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born in Radford, Nottingham and lived at 32, Jackson Street, St Ann’s Nottingham. Son of William and Caroline Georgina May Henley, of 24. Raleigh Street, Nottingham. Husband of Louisa Fletcher (formerly Henley), of 6, Beverley Street, St. Ann’s Well Road, Nottingham. He was a railway labourer prior to enlisting on 2nd December 1902 at Nottingham. He went to France on 2nd October 1914 and was killed in action, on 22nd December 1914, aged 28, whilst in the line near Richebourg, France.

Private John Henley art1 — Nottingham Evening Post February 6th 1915.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

Private John Henley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private George William Henley, 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.