BORN BEVERLEY. SON OF GEORGE AND JANE HARE, OF BEVERLEY. A MEMBER OF THE VOLUNTEER TERRITORIAL FORCE FROM FEBRUARY 1906. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT YPRES, ON 29/04/1915, AGED 25. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 08/05/1915. HIS BROTHER, DRUMMER, ALFRED HARE WAS WOUNDED AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS.
BURIED AT VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI”
First name:
JOHN
Military Number:
254
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
29/04/1915
Place died:
VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Age:
25
, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
