Henry Dudley Schroder
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Henry Dudley Schroder was born in 1891 in Shepherds Bush, London and he was the son of Charles Martin Schroder, a cigar leaf merchant, of Belgrave Chambers 27 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham. (business address ) and 39 Tavistock Drive, Nottingham, (Home address) His siblings were Chalres Bernard b1889 London, Louise b 1893 Shepherds Bush, and Eric b1899 Leytonstone, London. His father marries Emma Sherlock in 1900 in Nottingham In the 1911 census he is living at 39 Tavistock Drive, Nottingham he is living with Emma Schroder 52 yrs, and his siblings Charles Bernard 22 yrs a bank Clerk , he is shown as being 20 yrs a commercial traveller in the tobacco leaf trade, Louise 18 yrs a scholar and Eric 12 yrs a scholar, also at the address is Ann Sherlock 80 yrs a widow shown as wife' mother and Florence Tyler 23 yrs a servant.(His father Charles Martin Schroder is not at the house on the night of the census)
Second Lieutenant Henry Dudley Schröder, The London Gazette records Schroder as being given his commission on 25th September 1915, he served with 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. He joined his battalion in France on 27th July 1916 . He was reported wounded and missing 2nd December 1917 and subsequently reported killed on that date. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial..
Commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial. Nottingham Church (Rock) Cemetery family headstone: (Schroder) Also of Second Lieutenant HD Schroder killed in action December 2nd 1917 age 27 years. Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friend. Research Rachel FarrandAn article published 16th July 1918 in the Nottingham Evening Post :- PRESUMED KILLED. “Sec.-Lieut. H. D. Schroeder, Lancashire Fusiliers, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder, of Tavistock-drive, Nottingham, reported wounded and missing on December 2nd, is now presumed to have been killed on that date. He was educated at the Nottingham High School, and returned home from Canada in order to enter the army.” Above article is courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918
