Henry Herbert Thwaites

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270412

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

November 30th, 1917

Cemetery:

Vimy Memorial - Pas de Calais, France

Commemorated at:

Sons of England Memorial Plaque

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Sussex

Birth city:

Hastings

Address at enlistment:

14 Main Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

2 Garden Cottages, Frederick Road, Hastings, Sussex, England

Trade or calling:

Porter

Employer:

Canadian Express Company

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Cause and Place of Death: Killed in Action

BX January 8, 1918

Henry Herbert Thwaites Reported Killed in Action

Word has been received in the city that Harry Thwaites for three years an employee of the local depot of the Canadian Express Company has been killed in action. Thwaites tried the first and every subsequent contingent to enlist, and finally got on with the 215th and left for overseas last April with that battalion. He was reported as having been killed on November 30. He had no relatives here and his nearest of kin are at West Berkley, California, hence the delay in word of his death reaching Brantford.

BX July 24, 1918

Details of the death of Private Henry Herbert Thwaites of the 215th Battalion, Brantford, have been received by Miss Coulson, 1147 Gilman Street, W. Berkeley, Cal. On the morning of November 30, 1917, Private Henry H. Thwaites was one of a working party engaged on the narrow gauge-railway between Villers-Plouich and Marcoing. At about 9 a.m., when the order was given to return to camp, put on equipment and embark on the broad-gauge train, Pte. Thwaites went with the others and was on the train when it was fired upon by the enemy. He, with the other members of No. 3 Company, left the train and endeavored to reach the sunken road “Fifteen Ravine.” He was either killed on his way to the road or after he had reached it. His body was found and buried by members of the 4th Canadian Railway Company.