Other Information:Henry was educated at Berkhampsted School, where he was a prominent member of the football XV and cricket XI, representing the school at the Public Competition at Aldershot. He took his medical course at the University of London, obtaining the diplomas M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1912. He then filled the posts of clinical assistant in the cardiac department at the London Hospital and of assistant house-surgeon at the Popular Hospital for Accident. Henry joined the R.A.M.C. with a temporary commission of lieutenant on 7th August 1914, and proceeded to France immediately, arriving on the 15th and served with No 3 General Hospital. Henry remained in France until his death, except for three months when he was recalled for work at the military heart hospital at Hampstead in 1916. Shortly before his death he was promoted to acting major. He was serving with the 43rd Field Ambulance when he was killed by a bomb at Noyon. Capt John Parkinson wrote:- “I had many opportunities of learning to know Batchelor both in the Cardiac Department at the " London " and in France, where he was a colleague at a clearing station for many months. His sense of personal responsibility was keen. He had many qualities fitting him for his research work before the War, particularly his exactness tirelessness, and capacity for methodical work. Some of his observations and records remain unpublished because of the war. He was of a modest and retiring disposition, and as one got to know him more and more there was revealed a man of high and firm character with a steady, happy outlook on life. It did ore good to know him and to be associated with him in work and in leisure. No one could have been more thoughtful and kind. He was unquestioning and unselfish in whatever he held to be his duty, and this was shown in his life as in his honourable death." Henry was the eldest son of Dr H T and Mrs Batchelor of Queenstown, Cape Colony; and the husband of Kathleen Mary (younger daughter of the Rev. P H Kempthorne, rector of Wyck Risington, Gloucestershire) of Pentewan, Cornwall. - married in 1916, they met in France.
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