HENRY STEPHEN DANIELS
Born: 31st October 1881, Ipswich.
Baptised: 11th December 1881, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 4, Waterloo Road, Ipswich.
Died: 21st May 1919; age 37; died of Typhoid Fever at the Bangalore Station Hospital.
Residence: 8, Sherrington Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Cutlery Sales Manager – Smith & Daniels, 59 – 61, Westgate Street, Ipswich;
Enlistment Details: Date: 8th December 1915; Location: Ipswich; Age: 34 years & 1 month; Religion: CofE. Height: 5ft 4ins.
Reported sick – 9th April 1919.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 298306.
Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps, 695th M.T.Coy, ‘Elephanta’ Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Buried on the 22nd May 1919.
Grave Reference:
Plot 8. Row W. Grave 20.
New Protestant Cemetery 2.
Hosur Road Cemetery,
Bangalore,
India.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Stephen Henry & Mary Ann Daniels; husband of Morolo Hilda Daniels, of 8, Sherrington Road, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1891 42, Oxford Street, Ipswich.
Henry was 9 years old and living with his parents and siblings.
Stephen Henry Daniels, 35, a Cutler, born Norwich, Norfolk.
Mary Ann Daniels (nee Scopes), 33, born Westerfield, Suffolk.
George Ernest Daniels, 7, born Ipswich.
Winifred Mary Daniels, 3, born Ipswich.
Reginald Walter Daniels, 6 months, born Ipswich.
1901 82, Victoria Street, Ipswich.
Henry was 19 years old, a Cutler’s Assistant. He was living with his parents and siblings.
Stephen, 45, a Cutler – own account.
Mary, 42.
George, 18, a Cutler’s Assistant.
Winifred, 13.
Reginald, 10.
1911 82, Victoria Street, Ipswich.
Henry was 29 years old, a Cutlery & Electro Plates Assistant. He was living with his parents, siblings and paternal uncle.
Stephen, 55, a Cutlery & Electro Plates Dealer – own account.
Mary, 52.
Winifred, 23.
Reginald, 20, a Cutlery & Electro Plates Assistant.
George Edward Daniels, a Cutlery & Electro Plates Assistant, born Norwich, Norfolk.
On the 8th April 1912, at St. Mary the Great Church, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, by the Reverend W. A. Parker-Mason, 30 year old Henry, of the Stone House, Elliott Street, Ipswich, married 21 year old Morolo Hilda Dunnett, born July 1890, Ipswich – eldest daughter of Samuel George Dunnett, a licensed victualler, and Mary Ann Dunnett (nee Garnham), assistant licensed victualler, of The Tailors Arms, West Street, Comberton, Cambridgeshire.
Morolo and Henry had one daughter:
Stephanie Hilda Dunnett, born February 1914, Ipswich – baptised on the 1st April 1914, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home 8, Sherrington Road, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Morolo Hilda Daniels – widow.
Probate to Morolo Hilda Daniels – widow.
Henry is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, and at Northgate High School. Formerly Ipswich Grammar School for Boys, and on the Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
The esteem in which he was held by his comrades is strikingly shown by the above handsome memorial which was erected by them. The resting-place is that of Pre. H.S. Daniels, eldest son of Councillor S.H. Daniels, of Ipswich, who died at Bangalore, India, at the age of 37. Pte. Daniels, who was in the Royal Army Service Corps, was on his way home from Mesopotamia when he contracted fever. He leaves a widow and one child.
1919 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper article.
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