Henry Hadley (died 1914)

Henry Hadley was an English civilian who was fatally shot in Germany, allegedly while resisting arrest, onAugust 1914, the day before the United Kingdoms entry into World War160I. He is sometimes described as the first British casualty of the Great War. He was a greatgrandson of Erasmus Darwin.

Hadley was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His father, also Henry Hadley , had been a senior doctor in the British Army, serving as a surgeon with the 40th Foot and the Rifle Brigade, in Australia with the 11th Foot and 99th Foot, at the Castle Hospital at Balaklava in the Crimean War, before retiring in 1861 with the honorary rank of Deputy InspectorGeneral of Hospitals. His mother, Alpha Clementia Dunn, was from Hobart, Tasmania. His paternal grandfather, also Henry Hadley , was the physician of Erasmus Darwin and married Darwins illegitimate daughter Susannah Parker in 1809.

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