Pte 94260 Henry Albert Hetherington

• Age: 19
• From: Bradford Yorks
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Btn
• K.I.A Sunday 28th April 1918
• Commemorated at: Tyne Cot Memorial
  Panel Ref: Panel 31-34

Henry Albert Hetherington was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in the March quarter of 1899 and resided in Ulverston. He was the son of George Hetherington and his wife Annie (nee Denney). 

His mother Annie Denney married James Shaw in the December quarter of 1878 in Ulverston.

In 1891 the Shaw family are found at 24-26 Miners Arms, Dalton. Father, James, is aged 35 and an iron miner and beer house keeper born in Kirkby Ireleth, mother Annie, is  30 years of age and was born in Subberthwaite. Their children are listed as; Plato 11 scholar b.Kirkby Ireleth, Mary 10 scholar b.Kirkby Ireleth, John Thomas 8 scholar b.Dalton, George 6 scholar b.Dalton, William 4 b.Dalton, James 1 b.Dalton. Also present is Annie's father, Thomas Denney, who is 82 years of age and was born in Woodlands Ulverston, and servant Elizabeth Shaw 18 b.Dalton.

How James and Annie Shaw arrive in Bradford is not known but James died very soon after in 1892.

His mother died in the March quarter of 1899 most likely as a result of complications from the birth of Henry whose birth was registed as Albert Henry. 

On the 1901 census Albert Henry aged 2 b.Bradford is now a grand-son living at 2 The Weint, Ulverston with Robert and Eleanor Hetherington and their children Robert, John, George, Sarah, Richard, Isaac, Mary, Dora, Alice.  

There is no remarriage record for mother Annie Shaw so it is probable that Henry's father is the George Hetherington on the 1901 Census in Ulverston.

On the 1911 census Albert Henry is aged 12, at school, but is confusingly recorded as a nephew, still living at 2 The Weint with widowed Eleanor Hetherington and her children Robert, John, Sarah Eleanor(on effects record), Mary Agnes, Alice Maude and Minnie. 

George Hetherington died, aged 37, in the March quarter of 1913.   

Henry Albert enlisted in Ulverston and was serving in the 19^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 94260 when he was killed in action on the 28^th April 1918 aged 19 during the German Spring Offensive.

The Battalion diary entry for the day gives an insight into the events of the day.  

28^th April 1918

VOORMEZEELE SECTOR

The Battalion held the position taken up the previous night. The enemy artillery was very quiet but aeroplane activity on both sides was great.   

Henry Albert has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.

Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after August 16th 1917 are named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war.

The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.

The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.

Soldiers Effects shows half-brothers are William Shaw, John T. Shaw, G.Shaw, Plato Shaw, half-sisters Bridget Shaw, Lizzie Shaw, Mrs M. Kitchin, 

Pension to dependant Sarah Eleanor Hetherington, 2 The Weint, Ulverston

He is also remembered on the Ulverston War Memorial 

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