Royal Army Medical Corps, Service no. 58590.
Born: 6th May 1892. Died: 3rd December 1973.
Story
Hottewell, also known as Attewell Henshaw, was the son of Matthew Henshaw (1869-1936) and Fanny Backhouse (1869-1940). Before the outbreak of War, he married Maria Palfreyman, on Christmas Day 1913. Maria worked at Barnbow on munitions during the War. He lived on Well Lane, and enlisted early. Hottewell sailed on the Lusitania in 1914, which was sunk on 7th May 1915 (pictured below left). He was originally attached to the Yorkshire Fusiliers and served in Gallipoli, before transferring to the R.A.M.C. Hottewell spent much of the war treating soldiers in Malta (below right), and sent his wife and daughter many postcards home (below).
Spanish flu was rife when men were returning home from War late in 1918, and anyone with a cough wasn’t allowed back home. Hottewell had a cold at the time, but being medically trained he dosed up on quinine to relieve his symptoms enabling him to return to Kippax, but not before he managed to bring back with him a piece of the Rock of Gibraltar (below).
Kippax Roll of Honour 