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Harry Wilson enlisted on 9 Aug 1915 at Beverley and joined the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Beverley Terriers, as a Private. He arrived in France on 16 Apr 1916, he transferred to the 1st/4th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment as Private and later Lance-Corporal. Green's Almanack uses the title "Signaller" for Harry but there is no available information on why this was nor is it known specifically where he served on the frontline. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Harry was born in Beverley the 26 Jan 1895 and baptised at St Nicholas the 3 Mar 1895, the son of Herbert Wilson, of Beverley working in an oil seed mill and later in the shipyard as a labourer, and Mary Jane (nee Hulland) of Chatham, Kent. Harry attended St Nicholas school, they family living on Beckside and late at 39 Holme Church Lane. By 1911 Harry was working as a ships' marker.
Harry moved to Scarborough and in Jun 1920 he married Clara L Green. Harry took on a new career as a "tobacconist and confectioner", living at 53 Castle Road. He died in Scarborough on 10 Mar 1973 aged 78.
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