Private 260004 Harry ARCHER
10th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Died of wounds received at the Battle of Messines, Monday 18th June 1917, No.2 Canadian General, B. E. F., Hospital, France, Age 37
Home address:
71 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1880, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Elizabeth Archer and Harry Archer
40 Green Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Widower to Elizabeth Archer (née Rowbotham)
71 Ridling Lane, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:
Out Looker Cotton Mill
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Seine-Marilime, France, plot IV, row H, grave 8A.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Badly wounded and gassed on June 10th 1917, he died of gas gangrene on June 18th 1917.
Private Archer’s wife Elizabeth had died in 1914. After Private Archer died their son Joseph, was brought up by his grandmother.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his mother:
FOND MEMORY CLINGS