Henderson N W A Lt 1st Royal Sots Fusiliers
LIEUTENANT N. W. A. HENDERSON
IST BATTALION THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
NORMAN WILLIAM ARTHUR HENDERSON was the eldest son of Arthur Henderson and Gareth his wife, eldest daughter of James O’Shaughnessy, of County Limerick, Ireland.
He entered the School in 1906. He left in 1907, went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in January, 1911, and served with his Regiment in South Africa from 1912 to February, 1914, when they returned to England.
He went to the Front in August of the same year and was present at the Retreat from Mons and in the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne.
In the first Battle at Ypres, during the attack by the Prussian Guards, some of our trenches were taken, and in the counter attack to retake these Lieutenant Henderson was killed, in the wood round Heventhage Château, four miles east of Ypres, on November 10th, 1914. Age 23. He was buried near the Château with nine other officers of the Regiment. The few who survived bore testimony to his splendid, soldierly qualities.
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1
Henderson N W A Lt Royal Scots Fusiliers
Source : The Illustrated London News 26th Dec 1918