Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
Lieutenant Henry Charlton AMOS
Royal Marine Engineers
2 Field Company RN Division
The eldest son of John Hetherington Amos of Abbey Leigh, Darlington, County Durham, General Manager of the River Tees Conservancy Commission and the late Dorothy Mary Amos (nee Charlton) who died in 1898. He was the step-son of Lillian Florence Amos (nee Mitchell). Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, he was an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers 1910. He was associated with the Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway Contract, before going to work in Peru and Bolivia on railway construction. At the outbreak of war he was Assistant Civil Engineer with W.H. Walker and Sons, Railway Contractors of Westminster and was at the Dock and Harbour extensions, Buenos Aires, Argentina when war broke out. Returning to England he enlisted at Manchester and was killed in action at Gallipoli on the 22nd July 1915 aged 32. He is buried in Skew Bridge Cemetery, one mile north east of Seddulbahir, Turkey, Grave Reference I.F.2.
NB: The 1891 census lists him as living at Marske-by-the Sea, North Yorkshire and at Preston-on-Tees on the 1901 census.
He is remembered at Darlington on D40.067
