Sapper 48267 Harry Huxton GREEN
21st Division, Signal Company, Royal Engineers
Killed in Action, Monday 15th April 1918, Belgium, Age 27
Home address:
53 Stockport Road, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1891, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Louisa Elizabeth Green and Benjamin Green
88 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Married to Florence M. E. Green (née Morley)
53 Stockport Road, Hyde, Cheshire
Occupation:
Draughtsman, Harden and Co's Engineering Works, Hyde.
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
The Huts Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, plot XI, row D, grave 11.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Killed while riding his cycle. A shell exploded two yards away, and a piece of shrapnel went through his chest killing him instantly.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his wife: