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Pte. Harry Hendricks
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
(d.23rd Aug 1918)
Pte. Harry Hendricks served with the Leinster Regiment 2nd Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 23rd August 1918 aged 46 and is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, France.
He was the oldest soldier to be executed, an American who served in an Irish regiment. Henry Hendricks was 46 years old and the third American to be executed under the British Army Act.