CONQUEST, Henry George Kemp

Credit: CWGC

Lance Corporal

23rd Battalion

Royal Fusiliers

Henry was born 1882 in Newport to George Henry & Jane (nee KEMP) CONQUEST. In 1891 the family were living in the Bugle Hotel, High Street in Newport. By 1901 Henry was living on the mainland.

Henry enlisted in the Army in Hornchurch & was Killed in Action, aged 34, on the 21st of March 1916. He was originally buried by his comrades close to where he fell near Noulettes in an English Cemetery, but was later exhumed & reburied at Lievin Communal Cemetery in France. Henry rests beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE LAST FOR EVER. MOTHER”, alongside nearly 700 of his First World War casualties.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.