14th February 1916
ALDERSHOT
Offered and pressed to take Temporary Commission which I refused, being my turn for a Regular Commission, and so left the Army and the Royal Medical Corps after 22 years service.
After discharge/retirement Henry returned to London to his family in Highbury and worked as a baker. They had a daughter, Margaret (Peggy) in 1918, a sister to their four boys.
Lena and Henry moved to Norfolk during WW2.
Although it is thought that he suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis when he left the army he lived into his 90s, receiving an army pension until he died at Stamford, Lincs, 1962. He continued to be a keen swimmer, joining with others to break the ice in the Serpentine in Hyde Park on New Years Day while they lived in London and swimming in the mined beaches of the Norfolk coast during and after WW2!
He kept up his military bearing and his waxed moustache into old age.
ALDERSHOT
Offered and pressed to take Temporary Commission which I refused, being my turn for a Regular Commission, and so left the Army and the Royal Medical Corps after 22 years service.
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After discharge/retirement Henry returned to London to his family in Highbury and worked as a baker. They had a daughter, Margaret (Peggy) in 1918, a sister to their four boys.
Lena and Henry moved to Norfolk during WW2.
Although it is thought that he suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis when he left the army he lived into his 90s, receiving an army pension until he died at Stamford, Lincs, 1962. He continued to be a keen swimmer, joining with others to break the ice in the Serpentine in Hyde Park on New Years Day while they lived in London and swimming in the mined beaches of the Norfolk coast during and after WW2!
He kept up his military bearing and his waxed moustache into old age.
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