Name
Harry Emmerton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5200
Leinster (Prince of Wales') Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 78.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Benskin's Brewery Memorial, Watford, Hulcote & Salford Roll of Honour, Bedfordshire
Pre War
Son of William and Annie (nee SANDERS) EMMERTON.
His parents married 4 October 1887 at St Mary’s, Salford, Beds. William died 1939 in the Ampthill, Beds, district aged 77.
Harry was born 1888 in Woburn.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Apsley Guise, Beds, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he still lived in Apsley Guise, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a storeman aged 22, he still lived in Apsley Guise, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford 30 November 1914: aged 32, 6′ tall, of Watford, his next-of-kin his father. He was formerly Private 15769 Bedfordshire Regiment; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 31 July 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His brother Stephen died 28 June 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
