Private CH.6850 Henry Wharton
Regiment/Unit: Royal Marine Light Infantry - Chatham Bn.
Theatre of War: Home
Age at death: 43
Date of death: 29th of December 1915
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Rainhill, Lancs
BMD details:
D.O.B.10 Dec 1872
Census details:
1881 - Henry 9 is living with his parents William 29 and Ellen 27 and siblings Anne 6, John 3 and Elizabeth 6 months at 40 Phythian Street, Eccleston, St Helens 1891 - Henry 19, a Bottle Maker, is living with his widowed mother Ellen 37 and siblings Annie 16, John 13, Mary 12, Elizabeth 10, William 8, May 3 and Frances 9 months at Glover Street, Eccleston, St Helens 1901 - Not Found. Henry [b]is not[/b] at 72 Claughton Street, St Helens with remarried mother Ellen Forber and family. 1911 - Henry 39 is employed as a Signalman with L & NW Railways. He is living with his wife Mary Jane 35 at 1 Stoney Lane, Rainhill
Notes:
Died after Discharge (Invalided) in the Hospital Institution Whiston, from Compression of brain due to fracture of skull. How caused, not shown. Post Mortem. Inquest held 31/12/15. Awarded the WWI Naval War Medal.
Died after Discharge (Invalided) in the Hospital Institution Whiston, from Compression of brain due to fracture of skull. How caused, not shown. Post Mortem. Inquest held 31/12/15. Awarded the WWI Naval War Medal.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Courier19151231.png[/pic][caption]ManchesterCourier 31/12/1915[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Echo19160106.png[/pic][caption]Liverpool Echo 06/01/1916
(Images courtesy of [url=http://www.prescot-rollofhonour.info/]Stephen Nulty[/url][/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Henry_Wharton.png[/pic][caption]UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956[/caption]