Henry William Minter

1891 - 1914  (22 years)

• Name	Henry William Minter
  Birth	11 Dec 1891	St Lawrence, Kent   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	E775E7D1326C4C22974830BD996F2F698CA9
  Death	21 Oct 1914	France   [2]
  Notes	1911 census: (as William Minter), aged 20, single, born Ramsgate, Kent, a Private in the 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers based at Roberts Height, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. As William Minter, appears in DeRuvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914 - 1924 (at Ancestry.co.uk, Feb 2010): MINTER, WILLIAM, Private, No 9751, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of (-) Minter, of King's Corner, Minster, near Ramsgate: served with the Expeditionary Force; killed in action at Ypres, 21 Oct 1914. October 2012: Gill Cox has sent a newspaper cutting found in her late mother-in-law's photo collection. It reads: "ROLL OF HONOUR YOUNG RAMSGATONIAN KILLED IN THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS News has been received of the death of another Ramsgatonian - Private William Minter, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, who returned from Africa and Gibraltar about two months ago. He was then ordered with his regiment to the Front, and his many friends will regret to learn that news was received yesterday from the War Office that he has been killed in action. When he returned home he had only twenty-four hours leave, after five years service, to see his people before going to the Front. He was only twenty-three years of age. Minter's parents reside at Minster." The cutting carries a photo of William. Henry's photo appeared on the front cover of, and inside, the issue The War Cry published on Saturday 10 November 2012.
  Person ID	I1562	Ickham, Kent
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2012

  
  

  Father	Henry Thomas Minter,   b. 25 Jun 1866, Herne, Kent d. 8 Oct 1938, Kent (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Jane VINEY,   b. 19 Feb 1864, Bowerwood, Fordingbridge, Hants d. 5 Feb 1940, Bellars Bush, Dover Road, Sandwich, Kent (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1886	Kingston, Kent   [1]
  	Married by banns as a bachelor labourer aged 21 of Kingston; Jane as a spinster aged 22 of Kingston, the eight child of Charles and Christian Viney nee Witt, moved to East Kent with parents in 1871 to live at Cottington Court Farm, Sholden.
  Family ID	F288	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] BMD index. [S62] Commonwealth War Graves Commission.