Aged 27 years

Died 21st September 1944

Commemorated at Valkenswaard War Cemetery
Grave I. E. 18.

Rushden Echo & Argus, 6^th October 1944

Fusilier Killed in Holland
Dutch People’s Tribute to Higham Man

Mr and Mrs B Hume, of 13 George-street, Higham Ferrers, received news of the death and burial in Holland of their only son, Fus. Henry Arthur Frederick Hume, when a letter arrived on Thursday, September 28^th from the Major of their son’s Company.

The officer wrote: “No doubt you will have heard from the War Office of your irreparable loss. Your son was one of my Company HQ runners, and at the time of his death we were advancing over some open ground when some automatics opened up on us. Hume, I am sorry to say, was one of the unlucky ones. He was running by my side, carrying a small wireless set—sending back information of our progress—when down he went. If it is any comfort to you, he didn’t know what hit him. I dropped beside him, and he was quite dead, so he didn’t suffer at all.”