Henry Gladstone Kellett
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Henry was born on 14th July 1888 at Bawtry,the son of William and Eliza Ellen Kellett of Swan Street,Bawtry .In the 1911 census he is living with his family at Swan Street, bawtry he is 22 years of age single and a postman he has a brother Ralph Vernon. He was married to Mary Ann and they lived at the School house Bawtry. he left a widow and one son
He joined the Army at Pontefract on 13th July 1916 and went to Caterham on the 14th from there he went to Windsor and then went out to France and joined his battalion in December 1916. In October 1917 he was reported to be missing in action as of the 11th of that month . Three months after this he was officially presumed killed in action. It would appear that he was killed by a shell at Boeshinge in Flanders. Some time after his death his widow Mary Ann received a letter from a Belgium soldier who was on the battlefield after the action, he had come across a group of British soldiers evidentally killed by the same shell and on or lying beside the body of one of them were some letters and a photograph. This was Harry Kellett for one or more of his letters bore his wifes name and address and the Belgium soldier forwarded these to his widow with a letter of explanation.
His name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial, The Somme His brother was in the telegraph section of the Royal Engineers
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