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Henry Lenox Napier

 Henry Lenox Napier

Person details

Forename(s) Henry Lenox
Surname Napier
Rank Major
Regiment The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Age 39
Death Drowned at sea
Place of Death English Channel
Date of Death 17/11/1915
Year of Entry 1890
House Letter A
School Notes
Comments "Drowned in sinking of H. S. Anglia by a German mine" Drowned in sinking of HM hospital ship Anglia.

http://www.anglesey.info/SS_Anglia.htm

Obituary in Radleian of 16/12/1915
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit 11th Battalion
Prefect
Military Decorations
Album Number 6
Battle Mining of HMHS Anglia
Previous Regiment -
Additional Notes Added to Imperial War Museum 'Faces of World War One' project and Radley College War Memorial Flickr website on 15 March 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radley_college_war_memorial/
Burial or Cemetery HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
Place of Birth
Post School Career soldier; Married 1911 Dorothy Mathias
Shields in Hall