He was an Englishman a Cambridge graduate and was a headmaster of a school in Salisbury after the Great War. His brother (most likely twin) Arthur Gordon Letchworth, served with the Munster Fusiliers and after the war worked as a clerk with the Health Ministry (died 1933).
1889 Feb 6. Born Droxford, Hants
1891 census at his aunt's house at Newlyn, Adelaide Road, Kingston, Surbiton. His parents are at London Road, Maidstone with 2 of their other sons.
1901 census still at aunt's house Newlyn, Adelaide Road, Surbiton. His parents are at The Vicarage, The Street, Detling
1907 matriculated Oriel College, Oxford. . He studied Theology. Member of University Contingent of OTC
1911 Jul 22. Get a 3rd class Honours degree in his final exams.
1911 census at his parents at The Vicarage, Detling, Maidstone
1911. Assistant Master Beechmont Preparatory School, Sevenoaks 1911-1920
1916. Army List 1916 4th RDF. He served with the 4th Reserve battalion in Dublin during the Easter Rising.
1917 Jul 1. R, Dub. Fus.—The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts. H M Letchworth
1918 Feb 15. R. Dub. Fus.—The undermentioned to be actg. Capts. whilst comdg. Cos.: — Lt. H. M. Letchworth, Spec. Res.
1918 Apr 5. Neill's Bluecaps p108 lists him as one of 4 officers and 290 men missing after the attacks on about 5 Apr 1918 . Captain, Commander of "Y" Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers1918 he became a POW during Spring Offensive. On p103 of same book "Reports from the wounded made it clear that the men in the front line were very hard pressed, but at the same moment a very noble message came from Acting Capt Letchworth, commanding Y Coy that "he was surrounded but would hold on to the end". Further information on this battle and the Dublin Fusiliers role in it.
1919 Mar 19. R. Dub. Fus. Lt. H. M. Letchworth, 4th Bn., Spec. Res., relinquishes the actg. rank of Capt.
1920 Aug 23. Relinquishes his commission. 4th R. Dub. Fus.—Lt. H. M. Letchworth, and is granted the rank of Capt.
1920. Co-Principal Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury
1921 Aug 1. Teachers Registration of him at Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury.
Information that has been sent to the GWF Team email account by a former pupil of Henry Letchworth - H M Letchworth was a much loved teacher at Chafyn Grove School, Salisbury for many years. He taught my father and both my uncles in the 1920s, and me and three of my cousins in the 1950s. We thought of him as pretty old when I was there (1949-1954). He ran the Scout Troop having been, I believe, a friend of Baden Powell at Youlbury. He coached the rugby team. His nickname was Slush (which he did not like), except at the annual Scout Camp, when he was known as Chippi (the older nickname which he preferred and which may, for all I know, have dated back to the war). He produced the annual school play, and acted as Deputy Headmaster, taking turns with the Headmaster to preach the sermon in chapel on Sundays. I didn't know that he had served in the First World War but, with hindsight, it would have been surprising if he had not. He was a kindly old man, but I had the impression he became a little disillusioned, if not actually embittered, towards the end of his teaching career. I think he never married, and I don't know when he died.
1942 Nov 27 Henry Murray Letchworth was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Wiltshire regiment during the Second World War again. With service no 275884
1945 May 29 Relinquishes his commission . War Subs. Lt. H. M. Letchworth (275884).
1955 Jul 28 Traveled tourist class to New York on SS Queen Elizabeth. He is a schoolmaster and unmarried, living at Greenacre, Idmiston, Salisbury
1955 Sep 9. Arrives in UK from Montreal on SS Saxonia.
1964 Oct/Dec Died Salisbury, Wilts