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Gunner Harry Cecil Ford

British Army 230th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

from:Lewisham, Kent

(d.23th August 1917)

In WW1, Harry Cecil Ford was a gunner, Army number 157389, with the 230th Siege Battery, 4th Army, Royal Garrison Artillery, having enlisted at Lewisham, Kent.

He died on Thursday 23rd August 1917, and was buried at: Perth Cemetery (China Wall), Leper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave 11. C. 10/11

Detail from War Diary WO 95/476 12 July 17 to 5 Sept 17:

23.8.1917. Bty position at Zillebeke (Having come from rest Billets near Dickebusch on the 8.Aug). Time 2.40pm. A 5.9 Howitzer apparently registering on the Battery Command-Post House- the shell fell a little short. 3 men killed and 1 wounded. The other two men killed with 157389 Ford were 15697 Pigrem and 101954 Cottingham.



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