Guardsman 2699776 Henry William Moseley, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards was born 21st January 1912 at Lodsworth, the son of Henry William Moseley (1873 to 1944) and Emma Waygood (1871 to 1959). Henry had two siblings, Ethel Grace (1897 to 1968) and Kathleen Rose (1905 to 1997). Henry was the husband of Katharine Ann Lockhart Moseley, Downfield, Dundee.

On the 1st of October, 1944, serving in Italy, he was killed in action and buried in the South African Cemetery, at Castiglione.

The Dundee Courier for the 14th briefly reports upon his death under the column heading: “Guardsman dies of wounds”. The paper notes that "his wife, of “Gellyburn”, MacAlpine Road, Dundee had been informed of her husband’s death and that he was the only son of the late Henry R Moseley and Mrs Moseley of Rose Cottage, Lodsworth."

The electoral for Scotland 1938/39 records Henry at 9B Eildon Street, Edinburgh, where he worked for the Royal Botanical Garden, and where he is remembered on the memorial to staff who died in the Second World War (there is also a memorial to those who died in the First World War).

The RBG website https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/31696 also gives details of some of the men on these memorials.

For Henry it notes that one version of his death states that his battalion was stationed in an Italian Villa and that he was shot by a sniper whilst doing some gardening; another version states that he was in a bunker that was hit by a shell.

Henry is also remembered in Lodsworth Churchyard, Sussex on the grave of his father who died on the 29th of April, 1944.