Private Frank Henson

Army Number : 2747 (formerly 261)

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He lived at 99, Burford Road, Nottingham. Son of Edward and Blanche Henson, of 54, Austen Avenue, Nottingham. He was a carpet salesman prior to enlisting 21st September 1914. He went to France 28th February 1915 and was killed in action, 3rd August 1915, aged 20, whilst serving in the line at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Buried: Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row D. Grave 23/24

Private Frank Henson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Stephen’s Church War Memorial, Hyson Green, Nottingham.
Derby Road, Baptist Church War Memorial, (Thomas Helwys Baptist Church), Nottingham.

His brother Private William Henson, Lincolnshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.