Harry grew up with is brothers in Cammish’s Yard where his father, Fred, was a tobacconist.  He joined up in Scarborough into the 6^th Battalion, Yorkshire Regt. (Green Howards) after leaving his two jobs at the Scarborough Aquarium, and the Vernon Place Picture House, where he was well known and well liked.

          As a Drummer, Harry’s job when they reached the front line would be to act as a stretcher bearer to his battalion along with the rest of the battalion’s band, a dangerous job considering it entailed going into no-mans land to fetch casualties back during a battle, and even more so because they carried no weapons or ammunition.  This was the cause of his death, as a shell exploded too close to him during the closing stages of the Somme campaign, and like Kenneth Hague and Jenkinson Haxby is remembered on the Thiepval memorial.