Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Dendermonde Communal Cemetery & Ext
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After Jan 1917	~	Southam War Memorial
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Died whilst a Prisoner or War	Dec 1916 at Rugby
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
German Military Hospital at Lokeren	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Red Cross records (click here) show that Harry was captured on 10 Apr 1918 at Messines (during the German Spring Offensive) and then interred at Limburg Prisoner of War Camp in Western Germany. The records, created in answer to an enquiry from Miss Nellie Irwin of The Lodge, Southam, state that he had shot wounds to his right upper thigh which had caused a fracture of the thigh. Another record states that he had a wound to his left upper thigh caused by a shell fragments from an air ship.

His pension card states that he was wounded by a bomb dropped from aeroplane. The records also show that he died from those wounds in a Military Hospital (Kriegslazarett) based in a Franciscan Monastery at Lokeren in Belgium on 16 Jun 1918.