Name
Harry Richard Sutton
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
45454
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
VII. B. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Collegiate School War Memorial, Horam War Memorial, Sussex
Pre War
Harry Richard Sutton was born in 1899 at Heathfield, Sussex, the eldest son of Richard and Edith Sutton, and baptised at Heathfield on 1 October 1899. On the 1901 Census the family were living at Redlands House, Heathfield, Sussex, where his father was a farmer.
He attended a prep school in The Avenue, Eastbourne with his three brothers George, Robert and John and on the 1911 Census he is listed as a pupil. He then went on to Berkhampstead Collegiate School which he left in 1917 and volunteered for military service at the earliest opportunity.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the Army in Chichester and served as a Rifleman in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, posted to the 1/15th Btn, London Regiment.
The family received a letter from a Nursing Sister telling them that he had been seriously wounded and died in hospital. He died of wounds at the 20th Casualty Clearly Station on 2 September 1918, aged 19, and is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt L'Abbe, France.
Additional Information
His father, Mr R H Sutton, Redlands, Horeham Road, Sussex, ordered his headstone inscription: “DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI". His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £6 7s 5d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
heredeadwelie.co.uk,
