Harry Charles Weeks

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Harry Charles Weeks was born in 1888 in Berwick St. John, Wiltshire, and was baptised there on 5 Aug 1888. He was the son of Mary Emma Weeks, a laundress - there is no father on the baptismal record. His mother married Frank Jacobs on 11 Feb 1907 in Berwick St. John - they had one child, a half brother to Harry. At the time of the 1911 Census Harry was single, working as a Shepherd and living with his uncle in Luke Street, Berwick St. John, Wiltshire. He enlisted in Devizes, Wiltshire, as a Private in the 1st Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment (Service No. 18740) and he served in France & Flanders from 13 Jul 1915 where he eventually transferred to the 6th Battalion. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star. He he was wounded in action an was under treatment at the 2nd/1st Casualty Clearing Station where he died on 24th August 1916 and later buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France (grave id. VII.D.53). He is remembered on the Berwick St. John War Memorial.