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Rflmn. Walter Harris
British Army 2nd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Poplar East London
(d.23rd November 1916)
Walter Harris, born 1889, was the older brother of my grandfather Edward Harris. They were two of the four sons and two daughters of Charles and Mary-Ann Harris from Bethnal Green. In 1911 Walter gives his occupation as a labourer in a wallpaper manufacturers and in 1912 he married Edith Kate Hardy in West Ham and they had a daughter Kate born in 1914.
I am not sure when he enlisted but he was killed in action in France on 23rd November 1916. In October 1917 his brother Edward serving in the 7th Battalion of The Rifle Brigade died of wounds and was buried in France.