BORN GREAT YARMOUTH 09/10/1892. HE MARRIED BERTHA (METSON) AT HULL ON 28/03/1915. THEY RESIDED AT 2 WYKE AVENUE, SELBY STREET, HULL. HIS SISTER GLADYS LIVED AT 52 , SEATON STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A WAITER AT THE IMPERIAL HOTEL, PARAGON STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED ON 4TH SEPTEMBER 1914. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 12596, WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED AS WOUNDED AND MISSING. HIS DEATH ON 10/06/1916, WAS REPORTED, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 19TH JUNE 1917. *
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, BERTHA, WHO REMARRIED AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1920. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING ON THE SOMME. HE WAS AGED 23.
First name:
HAROLD HENRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
12596
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
10/06/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
23
