Aged 30 years

Died 3rd January 1917

Commemorated at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery
On the Angora Mem. 70.

Higham Ferrers Soldier — Dies as a Prisoner of War

Mrs. Coleman, of 25 Spring-gardens, Higham Ferrers, received official news on Wednesday that her son, 25423 Gunner H. F. J. Garner, of the – Heavy Battery, R.G.A., has died at Angora as a prisoner of war in Turkish hands. Death resulted from recurring fever.

Deceased joined the Colours about 11 years ago. He was in India when war broke out, and was drafted straight away to one of the fronts without a few days’ leave at home. He was with General Townshend’s force at Kut, and was taken prisoner on March 29th 1916. Three weeks ago Mrs. Coleman received from him a letter which he had written as a prisoner of war at Angora, but it had taken over six months to come. It had been written before Christmas, and Gunner Garner wished his mother a merry Christmas.

It will be ten years next Rushden Feast since deceased left England for India, and since then his mother had never seen him, though until the war broke out she received letters from him very regularly.

Rushden Echo, 14^th December 1917

IN MEMORIAM

COLEMAN – In ever loving memory of Albert James Coleman, the beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Coleman, of Higham Ferrers, who died Dec. 9^th, 1916, aged 16 years, also his brother, Gunner H. Garner, who died Jan. 3^rd, 1917, of recurring fever in Turkey, aged 30 years.

From their sorrowing mother, father, sisters, and brothers.