Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Probate TERRY Howard of 236 Edward-road Balsall Heath Birmingham a second lieutenant in the R.A.F. died 28 November 1918 Administration Birmingham 14 April to Millicent Terry widow. Effects £2882 3s.

His funeral was reported in the Birmingham Mail and the Birmingham Daily Post on the 5th December 1918:

"FUNERAL OF LIEUT, H. TERRY, R.A.F. - The funeral took place, with military honours, at the Perry Barr Crematorium yesterday, of Lieut. Howard Terry, R.A.F., who died from pneumonia following influenza on Thursday, last, aged 36. Mr. Terry, who resided at 236, Edward Road, Balsall Heath, gave up his business in Birmingham and enlisted in the R.N.A.S. as an air mechanic in the Armoured Car Section, under Commander Sampson. He saw active service in France, Belgium (Ypres), the Dardenelles, Egypt, and Salonica, was promoted to Petty officer, and received the Mons ribbon. After being invalided home he was transferred to the Royal Air Force in October 1917, and given a commission as Lieutenant. Since then Lieut. Terry had been employed on the staff of the Department of Aeronautical Supplies, 76 Bristol Road, Birmingham.

The funeral was attended by a large number of officers and others, including representatives of the Fletcher Masonic Lodge, Hertford Lodge, and the Fletcher Chapter. the pass bearers were Major L.S. Frazer, U.S.A., Director Aero. Supplies, Capt. C.P. White, Lieut Hooke, Lieut. Soper, and Lieut. Bokenham, representing the Department of Aero Supplies. At the gates of the Crematorium the cortege was received by officers' firing party, and at the conclusion of the service three volleys were fired and "The Last Post" was sounded."

He is commemorated on a panel at the Birmingham (Perry Barr) Crematorium.

Masonic :

Whilst Howard Terry is not listed on the 1921 or 1933 rolls, he is commemorated under St. Augustine Lodge No. 3713 on the list on the Warwickshire Memorial to Warwickshire Province Masons who died in the Great War and which is displayed at Yenton Masonic Hall, Birmingham (formerly at the Masonic Hall at Stirling Road, Birmingham).

He can be found in the contribution register of the lodge held at the United Grand Lodge of England for St. Augustine Lodge No. 3713, but under the name of Howard DERRY. It shows him as a petitioning and founder member of St. Augustine Lodge, but originates from Fletcher Lodge No. 1031 where he was initiated in 1913 and recorded as an Electrical Engineer from Balsall Heath.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley