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Beatrix

Beatrix Report 27 Feb 2010 08:44

I am helping my friend James Brendan Henry (1944) trying to locate any family members originally from Ireland......he was born in Banbridge,Ballyvally.After WW2,after his father Hugh Henry (rifleman)was killed, Margaret Henry nee Greenfield took James to live in Scotland.
James knows nothing about his fathers family and yearns to know
The Greenfield clan still reside in & around Banbridge
A lot of secrecy surrounds Hugh Henry and we can't find out what it is, either good or bad we want to know
Can any one help please?
We know Hugh went MIA after being shot down over Groesbeek in Holland and his name is etched on a concrete panel in the Canadian War Memorial

SueMaid

SueMaid Report 27 Feb 2010 10:14

I found this on the Commonwealth War Graves site. You may already have all this information

Name: HENRY, HUGH
Initials: H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment/Service: Royal Ulster Rifles
Unit Text: 1st (Airborne) Bn.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 24/03/1945
Service No: 7013163
Additional information: Son of Hugh and Mary Henry, of Crumlin, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland; husband of Margaret Henry, of Gallowhill, Paisley, Renfrewshire. Father of James Bernard Henry..
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 8.
Memorial: GROESBEEK MEMORIAL

Sue

SueMaid

SueMaid Report 27 Feb 2010 10:21

And this on Ancestry.

Name: Hugh Henry
Given Initials: H
Rank: Rifleman
Death Date: 24 Mar 1945
Number: 7013163
Birth Place: Antrim
Residence: Belfast
Regiment at Enlistment: Royal Ulster Rifles
Branch at Enlistment: Infantry
Theatre of War: Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
Regiment at Death: Royal Ulster Rifles
Branch at Death: Infantry

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