Henry, universally known amongst his fellow officers as ‘Tiger’ Wix was commissioned into 385 Battery of the Kent Yeomanry in 1935. After the outbreak of war, he was promoted to Captain and went with the regiment to France. Wounded in the weeks before Dunkirk, he was evacuated to a French hospital near Paris, and then on to Bordeaux in ambulances driven by English female drivers, in the teeth of the rapid German advance. There he boarded a British Destroyer bound for Falmouth. The story of the escape in described in Lushington’s book.
He was then mobilised to the Middle East. He was awarded a Military Cross along with Maj HM Allfrey for his actions in the desert during June 1942. During the withdrawal to the Alamein Line in July 1942, ‘Tiger’ was seriously wounded when acting as a Forward Observation Officer in a ‘Matilda’ tank, after it was hit by enemy shell fire. He went to Cyprus with the regiment in 1943 where he subsequently died on 17th June. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.
