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Harry Addison enlisted in the London company of the Royal Fusilier’s.
Harry was born in Beverley and baptised at St Mary’s in January 1887. The 1891 and 1901 census have him living in York Road with his parents Tom and Emily and three sisters Alice, Dorothy and Kathleen. In 1911 he was in lodgings in Harrogate and employed as a horse hatter manager. This occupation indicates that like his father, who was a stud groom, he was employed in the horseracing industry. Harry met his future wife Emma Leyland Palmer in Harrogate and they married in 1916. A photograph of him appeared in the Sep edition of the Beverley Guardian in 1917. At this time he was on sick leave from German East Africa. Harry survived the war dying in Knaresborough in 1935.
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