Reading (Caversham) Cemetery
Husband of Margaret Noble Henman (nee Le Brocq). Wedding
Notice Times 1917.
From The Times’ ‘FALLEN
OFFICERS’ dated 23rd December, 1918
Major RM Henman, MC, RFA, who died on
November 3, at Forest Row, Sussex, of pneumonia following
influenza, was the second son of Mr and Mrs Henman,
of Reading. He was educated at Bradfield College and
the Bedford Grammar School. He served in the Berkshire
Yeomanry through the South African War, receiving the
Queen’s Medal with four clasps. He was afterwards
given a commission in the Berkshire Territorial Horse
Artillery, which he resigned on going to Argentina.
At the outbreak of the present war he gave up the management
of the estancia to come home and serve. He was gazetted
to the RFA, and served with the 29th Division in Gallipoli,
Egypt and France. He was invalided home from the Somme
with pneumonia in 1916, and on returning to France joined
the 11th Army Brigade. On March 21 last he was with
the 290th Brigade in front of La Fère, where
he received the MC for holding his position against
great odds from early morn until dark. He fought through
the retirement until April 24, when he was wounded at
VillersBrétonneux. On recovery he was attached
to the 1st B Reserve Brigade RFA at Forest Row. He married,
on February 9, 1917, Margaret, elder daughter of the
late Captain P Le Brocq, of Jersey.
