230857 Sgt. Henry Jarvis British Army 1st Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment (d.1st July 1916) Henry Jarvis apparently rejoined, having been in the army earlier. He married in 1908 and was a cycle maker by trade.
Henry was wounded at Festubert (daily list 21st June 1915) and he was gassed (daily list November 1915).
He was killed on the first day of the First Battle of the Somme and left a wife and four children under six years old (sadly, the littlest one also died). Henry is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
My father's earliest memory was of his mother receiving the telegram to say his father had died. My father was four years old.
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