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Gdmn. Henry Balderstone
British Army 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Colne, Lancs.
(d.17th Aug 1915)
Henry Balderstone served with the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards during WW1 and died, age 26, as a Prisoner of War on the 17th August 1915. He is buried in Plot IX. A.8 in the Berlin South Western Cemetery in Berlin. He was the son of Mrs. Cecily Balderstone, of 29, Stanley St., Colne, Lancs.
Report in Nelson war memoirs: Private Harry Balderstone, 3rd Coldstream Guards, son of Mrs. Balderstone, of Stanley Street, Colne, arrived in France on the 22nd August 1914, and was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans three days later and interned at Cologne. Later he was admitted to hospital at Witenberg, suffering from typhoid fever. In May 1915 he wrote home for shirts, underclothing and money, as he was shortly to be removed from the hospital back to the internment camp. But shortly after, Mrs. Balderstone received news from the American Ambassador that her son had died.
