Henry Delacruz

Private Henry Delacruz (or Dela Cruz) was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 3 May 1896, in Liverpool, the son of Filipino-born ship's cook Juan and Elizabeth Ann Delacruz (née Winn), of Liverpool. At the time of the 1911 census, the Delacruz family were living at 16 Frederick Street.
Delacruz died on 15 August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign, while serving with the 6th (Service) Battalion, The Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers). He and his battalion had landed just a week before, on the 7th. His brother, Benjamin, a private in the 2/7th Lancashire Fusiliers, died in November 1917, on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Helles Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Dela Cruz, Henry, cwgc.org. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
Category:1896 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Filipino descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Helles Memorial
Category:Privates