BORN BARTON 1892. LIVED HULL. ENLISTED HULL. YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM HENRY & MARY ANN TODD, OF 44 PORTLAND PLACE, PROSPECT STREET, HULL & BARTON, LINCS. (HDM 18/01/1917). BADLY WOUNDED IN THE LEG AND ARM CARRYING AMMUNITION TO A CAPTURED GERMAN TRENCH. HE SPENT FIVE WEEKS IN FRENCH HOSPITAL WHERE HIS LEFT LEG WAS AMPUTATED. HE WAS INVALIDED TO ENGLAND. AFTER SEVERAL OPERATIONS ON HIS ARM, HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 24. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 29TH JANUARY 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
First name:
HARRY RUPERT
Military Number:
859
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
24
44 , PORTLAND PLACE, PROSPECT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
