Private 33728 Harry Anders
Regiment/Unit: Machine Gun Corps - 10th Coy.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 3295, S. Lancs Regt
Age at death: 18
Date of death: 22nd of April 1917
(Sunday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Arras Memorial - Bay 10.
Family details:
Son of Thomas and Fanny Anders, of 36, Eccleston St., St. Helens, Lancs.
Father Thomas is legatee.
Census details:
1901 - 2 years old Harry is living at 67 Grafton Street, St Helens with parents Thomas (37 - a coal hewer), Fanny (32) and three siblings: Mary (8), Thomas (6), George (1).
1911 - Sees 12 years old schoolboy Harry living at 118 Lyon Street, St Helens with parents Thomas (49 - a miner - hewer), Fanny (42) and three siblings: Thomas (16), George (10), James (5).
Boarding at the address is Thomas Thompson (44).
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/33728HarryAnders_b.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
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[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/AndersHandAtkinsonT_MGC.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private Harry Anders on the Arras Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
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