Henry's Story.
Birkenhead News 18 September 1915ANOTHER “FOURTH” DIES OF WOUNDS.
Mrs. McGivern, of 13, Vulcan St, is another of the many Birkenhead women who have been heartbroken by receiving the news of the death of their husbands, the news having been received from the Admiralty that Pte. Henry McGivern, of the 1st/4th Cheshires, who was wounded on the 18th of August, died on board the hospital ship Alaunia on the 27th of August, and was buried at sea. He was a Birkenhead youth and previous to joining the army was in the employ of the Vacuum Oil Works, Beaufort Road, where he was well respected.
Private McGivern who was 30 years of age and a married man with two children, was an enthusiastic cyclist, and was a member of the East Liverpool Wheelers and the Vacuum Oil Cycle Club. He left England for the Dardanelles with the first detachment, and the only communications his wife had about him, were one field postcard from himself saying he was wounded and a letter from the Matron of the hospital ship saying he had succumbed on August 27th to a very serious wound in the thigh, although the officers aboard the ship had done their best for him. His only brother is at present serving with the 1st Battalion King’s (Liverpool Regiment) and was wounded at Ypres, but he is now again at the front in France.
Henry McGivern’s photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth