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Lieutenant Henry George Redmond PRIOR, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 7th October 1916.

18th January 1887, St Mary, Beverley, York baptism of Henry George Redmond Prior, son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Redmond Prior & Edith Helen Arline Prior.

Educated at Wellington College and Exeter College, Oxford.

1911 April , Paddington Registration District, Henry G R Prior, married Minnie Selina Brown.

1911 Census - The Hotel Metropole, Kings Road, Brighton, Sussex - Henry George R Prior, boarder, age 24, married Private Means, born  Beverley, Yorkshire; Ida Prior, boarder, age 18, married under 1 year, Private Means, born Blackheath.

Resided Berriedale, 75 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex.

14 July 1915, Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th (Lewisham) Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment;  5 February 1916, posted BEF; 29th August 1916, Gazetted Temporary Lieutenant;  September 1916 appointed to command “C” Company.

6th February 1917, Probate - Henry George Redmond Prior, Berriedale, 75 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex, died 7th October 1916 in France on Active Service. Administration (with Will), Lewes 6th February to Iona Minnie Selina Prior, widow. Effects £6707 11s 1d.

1917 June, Steyning, Sussex Registration District, Iona Minnie Selina Prior, married George Frederick Courroux, 17 Chesham Road, Brighton, Sussex.

1st February 1920, Hove, Sussex, Iona Minnie Selina Courroux died age 27.

9th April 1920, Probate - Iona Minnie Selina Courroux, of 75 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex, died 1st February 1920, at 65 Lansdowne Place, Hove, aforesaid, intestate. Certificate endorsed by Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, 23rd August on the Administration of  the Effects, granted at London 9th April 1920 to George Felix Courroux, the husband. Value of Estate, £5616 12s 5d.

22nd June 1921, Probate - Henry George Redmond Prior, Berriedale, 75 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex, died 7th October 1916 in France on Active Service. Administration (with Will), London  22nd June to George Felix Courroux Esquire. Effects £367 16s 2d. Former Grant D.R. Lewes February 1917.

Buried at Warlencourt British Cemetery, II. F. IO., France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Officers died in the Great War show rank as Lieutenant; CWGC web site show it as Second Lieutenant.

London Gazette 28th August 1915.

The under mentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 14th July, 1915. Henry George Redmond Prior.

London Gazette 25th October 1916.

The under mentioned Temporary 2nd Lieutenants  to be Temporary Lieutenants : H. G. R. Prior. 29 August 1916.

London Gazette 27th February 1917.

Estate of HENRY GEORGE REDMOND PRIOR, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859, that all persons having any claims or demands upon or against the estate of Henry George Redmond Prior, late of "Berriedale," No. 75, New Church-road, Hove, in the County of Sussex, a Second Lieutenant in the 11th Royal West Kent Regiment, deceased (who died on the 7th day of October, 1916, in France, on Active Service, and letters of administration, with the will annexed, of whose estate were granted by the District Registry at Lewes of the Probate Division of His Majesty's High Court of Justice, on the 6th day of February, 1917, to lona Minnie Selina Prior, of "Berriedale," No. 75, New Church-road, Hove aforesaid, the lawful Widow and relict, and the administratrix of the estate of the deceased), are hereby required to send in the particulars, in writing, of their debts or claims to the said administratrix, at the offices of the undersigned, her Solicitors, on or before the 22nd day of March, 1917; and notice is hereby also given, that after that day the said administratrix will proceed to distribute the assets of the said Henry George Redmond Prior, deceased, amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to it he claims, of which she shall then have had notice; and that she will not be liable for the assets, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person of whose debt or claims she shall not then have had notice. - Dated this 22nd day of February, 1917.

J. K. NYE and DONNE, 58, Ship-street, Brighton, Solicitors for the said Administratrix.