DENLEY Herbert Owen

H.O. Denley, 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 13th Draft, embarked at Southampton 11th December 1916 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on 26th December 1916 (via France).  Granted Commission, Worcestershire Regiment 8th February 1917, attached to Camel Corps.  Afterwards killed in action.

Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 – 1922.

The following report appears in the Upton News, 27th April 1918:
It is our painful duty to-day to record that Mr and Mrs F.J. Denley, of Holly Green Farm, Upton-on-Severn, have suffered the loss of a second son killed in the war.  Second-Lieut. Herbert O. Denley, of the Camel Corps, paid the great price in Palestine on the 30th ult. The deceased, who was engaged in the De Beers Mines, South Africa, at the outbreak of war came to England and enlisted in the Worcestershire Yeomanry, being later sent to the East where he gained his commission and was transferred to the Camel Corps.  Formerly a pupil at Hanley Castle Grammar School, the deceased officer was held in the highest regard by all who knew him.  His younger brother, Pte. Harold Denley was killed last year in the same theatre of war.  Mr and Mrs Denley and family will have extended to them the sincere sympathy of a wide circle of friends.

Awarded the British War and Victory medals.

A photograph of Second Lieutenant H.O. Denley can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 11th May 1918, available at Worcestershire Archives.