"R.L. Henson was killed in action in Italy in August 1944. He had been with his regiment only three weeks after transferring from the R.A.C., but he had already won the good opinion of officers and men. At Sherborne he was quiet and of frail physique, but there burned in him a fire of determination that made him count among his fellows and won him an Exhibition at Keble College. He had chosen ordination as his eventual aim and his simplicity and goodness he woudl have made a splendid parson." 'The Shirburnian', December 1944.