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Harry Moody was born in Hutton Cranswick in 1876, the son of Robert and Hannah Moody (nee Robson), the eighth of nine children. Robert was a farm labourer and died in 1891 aged 54. In 1891 Harry was working a rulleyman in Hull and by the time of the 1911 census was a general bricklayers labourer living with his brother and widowed mother in Hutton Cranswick.
Harry served as a Private with the 1/6th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers and then with the 8th Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. In Oct 1917 Harry’s mother was informed he had been wounded in the head by a shell whilst fighting in France. On 22 Oct 1917 the Hull Daily Mail recorded the news that
‘Mrs Moody has received information that her son Pte Harry Moody, aged 41 years, who was serving with the Northumberland fusiliers and who was recently wounded in the head has since died’.
Harry was buried at Mendinghem Military cemetery. His mother received the Victory and the British Medals awarded to Harry posthumously.
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