LIEUTENANT KENNETH PARNELL HENSTOCK
MIDDLESEX REGIEMENT
23RD AUGUST 1914 AGE 21
BURIED: ST SYMPHORIEN MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
"Uffie", Kenneth Parnell Henstock, was the twenty-one-year-old son of Colonel F.T. and Mrs Henstock. He became one of the first officers to die in the war when he was killed in action on 23 August 1914 during the battle of Mons. Reports say that he "fell leading his platoon" which was "completely annihilated". "Uffie" is described as "our darling", but by the time Mrs Isabella Henstock came to to choose her son's inscription her husband was dead. He saw war service but died on 10 April 1917 at the age of 55.