Ernest Joseph “Eric” Henderson

Gunner · RH1095786 · S1 Patrol

What this roll records

CWGC: Gunner Ernest Joseph Henderson, service no. RH/1095786, Royal Artillery and Long Range Desert Group. Died 15 January 1943, aged 32. Buried at Tripoli War Cemetery, grave 11.G.10, Libya — the same date and cemetery as Capt Philip Arnold and L/Cpl J.H. Gravil, with whom he appears to have been killed. Date of death adopted here from CWGC as 15 January 1943; an earlier roll entry (from 'The LRDG in North Africa', p.205) gave 22 February 1943. Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

ROLL OF HONOUR: died on active service with the LRDG (Rhodesia) per W.B. Kennedy Shaw, "Long Range Desert Group" appendices. Appendix 2.

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• AKA added from the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll (missing information).
• Listed in the LRDG Preservation Society’s Troopers roll.

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