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Harry was brought up at 4 Mill Lane, Beverley, the fifth child of Henry John and Hannah Maria Carrington. Harry, his father Henry and his grandfather James who lived in Norwood, were all solicitor’s clerks.
At age 18 in 1913 Harry enlisted with the East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, whose Headquarters were in Railway Street, Beverley. In Oct 1915 the 1/1st East Riding Yeomanry embarked from Southampton, for Salonika but a change in destination meant Harry received his 1915 Star for arrival in Egypt on 10 Nov 1915. Harry remained in the Middle East for most of the war serving in Egypt and then in the Palestine campaign in 1917 before arriving in France in Jun 1918 when the East Riding and Lincolnshire Yeomanry amalgamated to form D Battalion Machine Gun Corp and then 102nd Battalion Machine Gun Corp.
The Victory and British Medal Roll records that Harry re-enlisted in April 1920 with the Royal Army Service Corp.
In 1927 Harry’s name appears on the passenger list of SS Bendigo on his way to Melbourne, Australia. A piece in the Melbourne Advocate in Feb 1928 tells us he was best man at a wedding and he and the groom both worked for the British General Electric Company. The Australian electoral rolls show Harry’s occupation changes from clerk to accountant by 1943. He didn't marry, he lived in and around Melbourne for the rest of his life. Harry died on 30 Dec 1966, aged 71 and is buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Springvale, Greater Dandenong City, Victoria, Australia.
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