Private 3195298 Harold Dennett

BMD details:
Marriage: 1st Qtr 1938 Harold Dennett to Mary I Rylance at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 769.

Census details:
1939 Register. 23 years old Harold Dennett born 15/08/1915 a Butchers Assistant and wife Mary I Ashall (Henry, Dennett) born 09/05/1915 an Unpaid Domestic are living at 124 Springs Road, Orrell. One member of the household is redacted. Note: Harold is transcribed as ~??? Dunnett. wife Mary I as Mary I Ashall (Henry,Dunnett).

Notes:
[url=http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's CofE Church Memorial[/url]

Harold was born on the 15th of August 1915 the son of Jesse Herbert and Jane Dennett of 9 Beacon Lane, Billinge, and was baptised on the 19th of September 1915 at St. Aidan's C.E. Church. Harold was called up and joined the Lincolnshire Regiment and was fighting in North Africa as one of the 'Dessert Rats' on the final drive to Tunis when he was killed in action on Thursday the 22nd of April 1943. He was 27 years of age and left a wife Irene and children Keith, Allan and baby Jeffrey. Harold is buried in the Massicault War Cemetery, near Tunis, grave VI.D.9. His name is recorded on St. Aidan's C.E. Church Memorial and on the family grave headstone in St. Aidan's Churchyard, grave 6/23. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Index of soldiers killed in the Second World War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; The Wigan Observer, 22nd of April 1944; St. Aidan's Church Registers; St. Aidan's Parish Magazine, November 1943. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url]