Rank
Private
Regiment
Royal Fusiliers
Date of death
23 August 1918
Age of death
35
Address
3 Eastbourne Road
West Ham
NWM
E15 3LH
Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
France
Biography
Harry George King was born in 1882. By 1901, he was living in West Ham with parents John and Harriet King, his five brothers, and sister.
By1911, he was living with his mother, wife and three children at 3 Eastbourne Road, West Ham, and was working as a laundry stoker.
However by the time he enlisted with the army, he was living in Woodford.
Harry King enlisted with 4th Battalion, London Regiment at which point he was recorded as living in Woodford. He was sent to the Western Front where he was killed in action on 23rd August 1918.
He is buried in the Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery in France.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com