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Henry John Lundie spent his early life in Beverley and as a youth was apprenticed to local horse trainer, W T Thornton as an apprentice jockey and stable lad. In 1906 he received his professional jockey licence. Prior to enlisting in the Army in 1916 at Malton he was employed by Major W H Renwick of Richmond, North Riding, as a jockey. After the war he settled in West Yorkshire.
Henry John Lundie was born in Beverley the 20 May 1887 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 9 Apr 1896. He came from a very large family of seven brothers and four sisters who lived at 1 Hind’s Yard, off Keldgate. His parents were Henry John and Annie Lundie (nee Wilson). They married in 1883 and were from Beverley. Henry senior was employed variously as a metal broker, labourer and, latterly, gardener.
Henry served as a private in the (Duke of Edinburgh’s) Wiltshire Regiment. He spent much of the latter part of 1916 in France and then the rest of the war on the Salonika Front in the Balkans. Like many in the three British divisions Henry contracted malaria in the summer of 1917 and he was also wounded twice, in Apr 1917 a gunshot wound in the left arm and a gunshot wound to the right leg in Nov 1918. He left the Army in Feb 1919 and was awarded the War and Victory medals.
After the war Henry moved to the Spen Valley area of West Yorkshire to the east of Huddersfield where he spent the rest of his life. In the 1939 census he is recorded as a “maltster’s labourer”. He married Alice Underwood in Bermondsey, South London in 1920, they had a son Albert in 1922. Henry married again twice in 1931 and 1953. He died in 1957.
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