Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
HENDERSON, ALEC STEWART, Captain, 1st Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regiment (T.F.), only son of Robert Stewart Henderson, of 18, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., by his wife, Laura, daughter of John Cooper Forster; born Dacca, Eastern Bengal, 28 Jan. 1888; educated Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined the Territorial Force in 1908, and was gazetted Captain Territorial Reserve of Officers, 25 July, 1913, and posted to the 1st City of London Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, his appointment to rank as from 5 Aug. After eight months in Malta he went to France with his Regiment on 10 March, 1915, and was shot through the head, 24 April, 1915, by a stray bullet, while in a trench superintending the throwing of bombs on the barbed wire entanglements, and died the next day, 25 April; unmarried. He was buried at Sailly-sur-Lys. His Colonel wrote: "The Regiment lost in him one of its best officers. I do wish to express to you my highest appreciation of what he did for the Regiment through his conscientious work and great ability. As such his memory will live in the Regiment"; and the Adjutant: "He was a universal favourite, his company really loved him. He was a good keen soldier, and we can ill afford to lose an officer of his experience." He had qualified for appointment as instructor of musketry.
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HENDERSON, ALEC STEWART, Captain, 1st Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regiment (T.F.), only son of Robert Stewart Henderson, of 18, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., by his wife, Laura, daughter of John Cooper Forster; born Dacca, Eastern Bengal, 28 Jan. 1888; educated Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined the Territorial Force in 1908, and was gazetted Captain Territorial Reserve of Officers, 25 July, 1913, and posted to the 1st City of London Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, his appointment to rank as from 5 Aug. After eight months in Malta he went to France with his Regiment on 10 March, 1915, and was shot through the head, 24 April, 1915, by a stray bullet, while in a trench superintending the throwing of bombs on the barbed wire entanglements, and died the next day, 25 April; unmarried. He was buried at Sailly-sur-Lys. His Colonel wrote: "The Regiment lost in him one of its best officers. I do wish to express to you my highest appreciation of what he did for the Regiment through his conscientious work and great ability. As such his memory will live in the Regiment"; and the Adjutant: "He was a universal favourite, his company really loved him. He was a good keen soldier, and we can ill afford to lose an officer of his experience." He had qualified for appointment as instructor of musketry.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
HENDERSON, ALEC STEWART, Captain, 1st Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regiment (T.F.), only son of Robert Stewart Henderson, of 18, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., by his wife, Laura, daughter of John Cooper Forster; born Dacca, Eastern Bengal, 28 Jan. 1888; educated Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined the Territorial Force in 1908, and was gazetted Captain Territorial Reserve of Officers, 25 July, 1913, and posted to the 1st City of London Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, his appointment to rank as from 5 Aug. After eight months in Malta he went to France with his Regiment on 10 March, 1915, and was shot through the head, 24 April, 1915, by a stray bullet, while in a trench superintending the throwing of bombs on the barbed wire entanglements, and died the next day, 25 April; unmarried. He was buried at Sailly-sur-Lys. His Colonel wrote: "The Regiment lost in him one of its best officers. I do wish to express to you my highest appreciation of what he did for the Regiment through his conscientious work and great ability. As such his memory will live in the Regiment"; and the Adjutant: "He was a universal favourite, his company really loved him. He was a good keen soldier, and we can ill afford to lose an officer of his experience." He had qualified for appointment as instructor of musketry.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
HENDERSON, ALEC STEWART, Captain, 1st Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regiment (T.F.), only son of Robert Stewart Henderson, of 18, Rutland Gate, London, S.W., by his wife, Laura, daughter of John Cooper Forster; born Dacca, Eastern Bengal, 28 Jan. 1888; educated Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined the Territorial Force in 1908, and was gazetted Captain Territorial Reserve of Officers, 25 July, 1913, and posted to the 1st City of London Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, his appointment to rank as from 5 Aug. After eight months in Malta he went to France with his Regiment on 10 March, 1915, and was shot through the head, 24 April, 1915, by a stray bullet, while in a trench superintending the throwing of bombs on the barbed wire entanglements, and died the next day, 25 April; unmarried. He was buried at Sailly-sur-Lys. His Colonel wrote: "The Regiment lost in him one of its best officers. I do wish to express to you my highest appreciation of what he did for the Regiment through his conscientious work and great ability. As such his memory will live in the Regiment"; and the Adjutant: "He was a universal favourite, his company really loved him. He was a good keen soldier, and we can ill afford to lose an officer of his experience." He had qualified for appointment as instructor of musketry.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Captain, A Company, 1st Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). Died of wounds. Son of Robert Stewart Henderson and Laura Henderson, of 18 Rutland Gate, South Kensington, London. Age: 27.
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