Basic Details
Surname
Dewhirst
Forenames
Harry
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He worked for a firm of wholesale clothiers and was engaged to a Miss Eva Lodge. he enlisted in December 1914 and was wounded, first not seriously in March 1916 and then, more seriously, on 24/5/17. He was invalided back to England but died in hospital just over 2 weeks after being wounded. He is buried in this churchyard and is not commemorated on any other Calderdale memorial on their lists.
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on the memorial
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on the memorial
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
England
Town of death
Dover
Country of burial
England
Town of burial
Hebden Bridge, Halifax
Cemetery
Birchcliffe Baptist Church
Year of death
1917
Month of death
June
Day of death
9
Age at death
23
Manner of death as stated
Not stated on memorial
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action