A/200762 Rifleman Henry Leonard Payton of the 18th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, was one of 101 Other Rank KRRC servicemen to die on this day, 31st July, in 1917. He was killed in action.
Henry was born in late 1885 or early 1886, his birth registered in the March quarter of 1886 at Sudbury in Suffolk. The 1891 census records him, aged 5, living in Glemsford, Suffolk. The family address is the board school at Tye Green where his father, William H Payton (aged 35) was an elementary school teacher. Also in the household were Henry's mother, Mary A Payton (aged 34) and his siblings: Alice M M Payton (aged 10), Emily Payton (aged nine) and Culmer George Payton (aged four). William is recorded as having been born in Abingdon, Berkshire and his wife in Crayford, Kent. Alice and Emily were born in Erith (Kent) but the two boys have Glemsford recorded as their place of birth.
Ten years later, when the 1901 census was taken, the family was still at the board school in Glemsford, Alice noted as a student in a training college.
Soldiers Died in The Great War notes that Henry was born in Sudbury, Suffolk and enlisted at Leyton, Essex (now Greater London). It also notes that he had previously served with the Rifle Brigade (number S/20187) and with the 112th Training Reserve Battalion (number TR/13/38300). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission adds no additional information other than that he is commemorated on panel 51 or 53 of the Menin Gate at Ypres.
Henry Payton's Rifle Brigade number dates to June 1916 and his KRRC number falls within the six figure A/ prefix series of numbers allocated to men who joined from the Training Reserve.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (BMD, MIC, 1891 and 1901 census)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War
Menin Gate photo by Tim Bekaert, taken from Wikimedia Commons
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