Source: September 1916 K.I.A.
Note: Attestation papers indicated that the name was entered in error and corrected later. Service records show use of both forenames. Will shows signature of forename as Harry.
Family Search: Private Henry Conway was born on 14 April 1893, in Chingford, Waltham Forest, London, England, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Canada in 1913. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as porter, royal hotel in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 15 September 1916, in Courcelette, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
EIGHT STRATFORD MAN OF 18TH IS NAMED.
STRATFORD, Nov. 17.– Pte. Henry Conway, reported wounded, is the eighth local man of the 18th Battalion to appear on the lists, two of home have been killed. Pte. Conway is a native of England and prior to enlisting was employed as porter at the Royal Hotel here. He is 22 years of age, and unmarried.
London Advertiser. November 18, 1915. Page 9.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 