Henry Pattison Carey

Henry Pattison Carey known as Jack was born in 1896 and was the son of William Henry Carey a lace curtain finisher and Jane Pertwee Carey née Pattison of Newcastle Drive, Nottingham. His father was born in 1855 in Nottingham and his mother Jane Pertwee Pattison was born in 1860 in East Chester, they were married in 1890 in Chelmsford and went on to have 3 children, sadly one of which died in early infancy, their other remaining child was another son Philip Norman Carey born 1902 in Nottingham. In the 1911 census the family are living at Carrisbrook Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham,and are shown as William Henry Carey 56 yrs a lace curtain finisher, he is living with his wife Jane Pertwee 51 yrs and their two sons , Henry Pattison Carey 14 yrs a scholar and Phillip Norman Carey 9 yrs a scholar, also living at the house are three female domestic servants. His probate was proven on 10th March 1916 at Nottingham and shows him as Henry Pattiosn Carey of Carrisbrook Drive, Nottingham Lieutenant in HM Army died on 10th August 1915 at Gallipoli, his effects of £76 15 shillings and 9 pence were left to William Henry Carey a lace finisher (father)

Educated at Repton School which he left in April 1914.

Lieutenant Henry Pattison Carey received a commission in Kitchener's Army, in August 1914 and served with the 9th battalion Sherwood Foresters . He was killed in action at Gallipoli between 7th August -11 August 1915. He has no known grave his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.

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