Born: 10 September 1894
Died: 2 December 1917
Buried: Salferino Farm Cemetery
Address: 15 Westgate, Shipley
Parents: Cllr Alfred & Martha Ann
Spouse:
Siblings:
Occupation: Worked in father’s butchers
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Gunner
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: St Paul’s, Shipley; Rosse Street Baptist Chapel
Children:
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Henry (Harry) Waugh
On 21 December 1917, the Shipley
Times & Express reported:
Gunner Harry Waugh, R.F.A., son
of Cllr A Waugh of Westgate,
Shipley, has been killed in action.
Harry was a bright lad and he was
anxious to do his bit for country.
The sad event drew from Cllr
Thomas Hill, chairman of the
Shipley District Council meeting a
sympathetic reference. He said:
“I regret to have to refer to the very
great loss which has been sustained
by a Member of the Council, Mr A
Waugh, on the death of his son,
who has been killed in action in
France.
“Cllr Waugh’s son voluntarily
joined the army about two years
ago and has been in France for
about half that period. He was a
young man of promise and one of
whom his father and mother were
justly proud.
“He has died doing his duty and
that must be a help to the father and
other in their great grief.
“I am sure I am speaking for
myself and the members of the
Council, as well as for the people
of Shipley generally, when I say
how very sorry we were to hear of
their loss and I move that the Clerk
forward to Mr Waugh an
expression of our deep sympathy
with him and his wife in the sad
bereavement which they have
sustained.”
The newspaper also reported that
Harry was one of five men featured
in ‘a group photograph,
surmounted by ivy and covered
with a Union Jack, unveiled at the
Rosse Street Brotherhood Social
Rooms to the memory of five
members who have fallen in the
war.’
The family gravestone in Nab Wood
Cemetery reveals that the Waughs
had already lost a son and a
daughter before Harry was killed