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Pte. Henry Rowlands
British Army 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers
from:St Asaph, North Wales
(d.19th July 1918)
Henry Rowlands enlisted as a private soldier into the Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry (Reserve Regiment) at Eccleston Camp on 17th of Sept 1914.
He then transferred into the 24th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Henry died on 19th of July 1918 in the 2nd Australian Casualty Station from a gunshot wound to his left groin after running to the aid of a friend who had also been shot.
He is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, in France.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Never Forgotten. R.I.P