Perry, H
HARRY PERRY
Remembered with honour Tewin (St Peter) Churchyard.
He enlisted in Watford; appears to have no medals, and died of pneumonia in Felixstowe, Suffolk. Unfortunately, Harry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of James and Hannah Elizabeth (nee GOODMAN) PERRY.
His parents married 3 February 1879 at St Peter’s, Tewin. Hannah died 1923 aged 66; James died 1931 aged 83; both in the Hertford district.
Harry was born 9 January 1899 in Tewin, and baptised 26 February 1899 at St Peter’s Tewin. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 2 he lived in Tewin, with his parents and seven siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 12, he still lived in Tewin, with his parents and two siblings.
Service number
50631Rank
PrivateUnit
3rd BattalionRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
03/11/1918Age at death
19Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)