Ballard, Henry Herbert

Henry was born in 1895 in Leamington Spa and was baptised on 1st September 1895 at St John the Baptist Church in Leamington. He was the only child of Henry and Emily.

In 1901 at the age of five he was living with his grandparents while his father and mother were working at the Avenue Hotel, Leamington as a waiter and cook domestic.

On the 1911 Census Henry’s parents were living at 46 Crompton Street, Warwick. Henry senior was working as a Hotel Porter. Henry junior was 15 and a patient at the Heathcote Hostel (Isolation hospital). His occupation is stated as a Telegraph Messenger.

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Henry was initially declared as missing although it appears from this item in the Warwick Advertiser that his parents weren’t officially notified of this until October 1917:

Warwick Advertiser 6th October 1917

And his death wasn’t confirmed until 10th November 1917