Harry Arthur Mead

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Harry Arthur Mead was born in Kensington, London, on 10 Dec 1895 and baptised at Christ Church, Paddington, London, on 15 Apr 1896 the son of Thomas Arthur Mead, a Butler, and Kate Mead (nee Coward). The family had moved to Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset, by 1901 and were living in the Street, Motcombe. Harry had enlisted and joined the Dorset Regiment as a Private (Service No. 3424). He was later promoted to Acting Corporal. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Service No. 62083) until he was discharged on 16 Nov 1919. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. By the 1921 Census he was living with his widowed mother (his father having died in 1914) at 23 The Street. Motcombe, working as a Gardener for Lord Stalbridge. He married Lottie Phyllis Stanley in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 27 Jun 1927. The 1939 Register shows he had moved to Stoke Rockford, West Kesteven, Lincolnshire, where he was employed as a Domestic Gardener as well as a Volunteer First Aider. His death was recorded at the Grantham, Lincolnshire, Registry during 1956.