Basic Details
Surname
Whitley
Forenames
H
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Alternative forename
Harry
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the details. He joined the school in 1906 and was a clerk at the Yorkshire Penny Bank and engaged to a Miss Stocks before enlisting in November 1915. He was commissioned in August 1917 and is one of 18 British dead in the German Cemetery, almost certainly having been buried there by a German field hospital.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Country of burial
France
Town of burial
Assevilliers
Cemetery
German Cemetery (Misery Chateau)
Year of death
1918
Month of death
March
Day of death
22
Age at death
24
Manner of death as stated
UNKNOWN
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action