HENRY AMBROSE SPARROW 

Henry Ambrose SPARROW
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number:8746.
Regiment: 1st Bn Cheshire Regiment
Killed In Action Tuesday 25th May 1915
Age 27
FromBirkenhead.
County Memorial Birkenhead
Commemorated\Buried Tuileries British Cemetery
Grave\Panel Ref: Sp. Mem. E. 19.
CountryBelgium

Henry Ambrose's Story.

Birkenhead News  11 September 1915

Killed After Nine Months.

CHESHIRE SERGEANT’S DEATH.

Official intimation of the death of Sergt. Harry Ambrose Sparrow, of the 1st Cheshire Regt., has been received by the mother, who resides at 102, Oliver Street, Birkenhead. Sergt. Sparrow was a reservist having served eight years, and on the outbreak of war he was called up and left for the front in August 1914. He took part in all the major engagements, and was allowed home in March for a short leave. He had only been in the firing line a few weeks when he was killed on May 25th.

He leaves a wife and a little son, who reside in Kensington Street, Belfast. Deceased has a younger brother, Pte Albert Sparrow, who is a member of the machine gun section of the 1st Cheshires at present serving in France.