Regimental number | 534 |
Place of birth | Quirindi, New South Wales |
School | St Bridgids Convent School |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | Baker |
Address | 189 Oxford Street, Leederville, Western Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 19 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Agnes Apis, 189 Oxford Street, Leederville, Western Australia |
Previous military service | Served in the 86th Infantry, Citizen Forces, Western Australia |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 44th Battalion, C Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/61/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A29 Suevic on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 28th Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Was a footballer, runner and cricketer |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 21.2 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 21 |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 113 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Son of Agnes EPIS (formerly HENDERSON), 205 Oxford Street, Leederville, Western Australia, and the late John HENDERSON. Native of Quinindi, New South Wales |
Family/military connections | Brothers: 7067 Pte Allen Fenton HENDERSON, 28th Bn, returned to Australia, 14 January 1919; 52153 Pte John Patrick HENDERSON, 28th Bn, returned to Australia, 12 July 1919; Step Father: served in the Army |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |