BORN MILE END, EAST LONDON 1877. SON OF CAROLINE & THE LATE BARNETT SILVERSTONE, AT 121 WALKER STREET, HULL. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HIS PARENTS WERE FROM WARSAW, POLAND. HIS FATHER WAS A HIGH CLASS TAILOR. HARRY LIVED IN AT 465 HIGH ROAD LEYTON, ESSEX (PROBATE ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A LONDON BUS CONDUCTOR. HE ENLISTED IN STRATFORD, LONDON. SERVED AS CORPORAL, 2743, 9TH ESSEX REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/07/1916, AGED 39. COMMEMORATED ON THE THEIPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S JEWISH MEMORIAL, LINNAEUS STREET. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS YOUNGER SISTER, MISS MINNIE SILVERSTONE. HIS MOTHER CAROLINE, HAD DIED IN 1902. HIS FATHER, BARNETT ALSO DIED IN 1916.
First name:
HARRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
307960
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
03/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
39
