Major (Acting Lt Col) Albert Norman HENDERSON MC

Major (Acting Lt Col) Albert Norman Henderson, MC{gallery}Maj A N Henderson{/gallery}10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme, near Bazentin-le-Petit, France and Flanders, 23rd July 1916 aged 46

• Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 9A 9B and 10B
• Awarded Military Cross, 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Youngest son of William and Esther Henderson of Rossland House, Erskine, Scotland
• Husband of Mary Gertrude Rose (daughter of Sir Philip Frederick Rose). Married on 7 Feb 1895 in Kensington, London
• NNWFHS memorial: Monks Kirby and Stretton-under-Fosse
  

Links to relevant information
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• CWGC Page for Acting Lt Col Henderson
• NNWFHS Monks Kirby and Stretton-under-Fosse War Memorial Page
• Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Thiepval Memorial
• Major Henderson’s Medal Card

1911 census and family history information

• Born 1870 in Erskine
• Lived at Rossland House, Erskine [1871 Scottish Census]
• Living under his own means at Street Ashton Lodge, Stretton-under-Fosse [1911]
• Formally a Captain in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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• Major Henderson was awarded the Military Cross in the King’s Birthday Honours List which was Gazetted on 6 Jun 1916. This means that the award was not for one specific act but for his general conduct and acts of bravery. Please click here for the Gazette entry.