6th Battalion to be Temporary Lieutenant dated 8 December 1914 , Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War HENRY FAWCETT GARRETT was the second son of Samuel Garrett (O.R. 1865,9), Solicitor, 13 Nottingham Place, W., and of Clara his wife.
He entered the School in 1899 and was in the XV in 1903. He went in 1904, to Pembroke College, Cambridge, with a Scholarship but was pre vented by the breakdown of his health during the Classical Trips from completing his examination. The Examiners, however, certified that in their opinion he would have gained a First Class if he had been able to finish the Examination. After leaving Cambridge he became an artist and executed some decorative wall,paintings at Winchelsea and elsewhere. Shortly before the War his design for the memorial to Canon Barnett, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, was selected by the Committee, and he was engaged upon it when War broke out. He at once enlisted in the Royal Engineers, shortly afterwards receiving a Commission in the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was presently appointed Machine,gun Officer of his Battalion. He went out to Gallipoli in July, 1915, and took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on August 7th, and it was there that he met his death on August 22nd, 1915. Age 29. He was gazetted Captain after his death, the appointment to date from August 9th. His Major wrote that in the landing and the three days fighting which followed it, he had “done splendidly.” , Photo