Name
Harry Males
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Harry appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish and census records suggest only one man of this name who could have served and he was born on June 13th 1892 to Ernest Ephraim and Mary Males (née Males (sic) - marriage records). Baptism and census records list nine children: Emma (b 1873), William (b c1876), Rhoda (bapt 1879), James (b 1881), Jane (b 1883), Anne (b 1886), Clara (bapt 1889), Harry (b 1892) and Mary (bapt 1895).
He is recorded in the Parish Magazine of November 1918 as enlisting ‘recently’ and serving in the West Yorkshire Regiment. He would have been twenty-six years old.
He married a girl called Mary from Leeds and later they lived in Letchworth. They had two boys: Harold and Eric.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
