BORN HULL 19/04/1889. LIVED IN BEVERLEY. ENLISTED SCUNTHORPE. SON OF EDWIN SHEARSMITH & MARY ANN TONGE, OF MANCHESTER STREET, HULL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1893. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1914. EMPLOYED AS A FURNACE MAN. HE MARRIED ANNIE BOWERS, IN SCULCOATES, IN 1913.
HE ENLISTED ON 20/08/1914. SERVED WITH THE 6TH LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS AT GALLIPOLI, ON 14/08/1915, AGED 26. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, MARION DAVEY AT THIS ADDRESS.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED AS KILLED, ON THE MANCHESTER STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
BURIED: Portianos Mil Cemetery West Mudros Lemnos, Greece.
First name:
HAROLD
Military Number:
10075
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
14/08/1915
Place died:
Portianos Mil Cemetery West Mudros Lemnos, Greece
Age:
26
6 EDITH GROVE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
