Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 23 August 1915: CAREY killed in action between August 7th and 11th, Lieutenant HP Carey (Jack), 9th Sherwood Foresters, son of WH and J Carey, Carisbrooke Drive, age 19.
Article published 23rd August 1915 in the Nottingham Daily Express :-
“SON OF PROMINENT CITY GENTLEMAN
“Another gallant Nottingham officer has gone heroically to his fate in battle. Lieutenant H. P. Carey, of the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, was killed in action on the Gallipoli peninsula between August 7th and 11th.
“Lieutenant Carey was the elder son of Mr. W. H. Carey, of Carisbrooke-drive, Nottingham, a gentleman who for many years has been closely identified with the city’s affairs, municipally, socially, and politically.
“Lieutenant Carey, who was 19 years of age, went from Waverley School, Nottingham, to Repton College, where he obtained considerable military training with the Officers’ Training Corps in connection with the college. He completed his education a few months before the outbreak of war, and was in fact about to enter business in civil life when the outbreak of hostilities occurred. In less than a month Lieutenant Carey got his commission and became a Sherwood Forester by choice. Three months later he was promoted to first lieutenant.
“His battalion was the one to which Nottingham people gave such an enthusiastic reception a few months ago when it marched to the city from Belton Park. That gallant line, regarded as one of the finest battalions in Kitchener Army, was selected for duty in the Dardanelles. They had been some five or six weeks only when Lieutenant Carey met his death bravely fighting the Turks.
“Mr. W. H. Carey, to whose family all Nottingham people will extend their sympathy, has received the following telegram from Lord Kitchener: —
“Deeply regret inform you that Lieutenant H. P. Carey, 9th Sherwood Foresters, was killed in action between 7th and 11th August. Lord Kitchener expresses his sympathy. — Secretary, War Office.”
Article published 23rd August 1915 in the Nottingham Evening Post :-
“An official intimation of the death in action of their elder son, Lieut. H. P. Carey, was on Saturday [21st August 1915] received by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Carey, of Carisbrooke-drive, Nottingham.
“The young officer – he was but 19 – was attached to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters. An old Reptonian, he obtained a commission shortly after the outbreak of war, and his second star in December last.”
Above articles are both courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918