Harry Edwin Adlem

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Harry Edwin Adlem was born in Tollard Royal, Wiltshire, on 16 March 1900 the son of Edwin Adlem and Nellie Adlem (nee Pullman). He lived his early life in the Tollard Royal area until by 1911 he had moved with his family to Newtown, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Having reach 18 years of age in 1918 he had enlisted with the Dorsetshire Regiment as a Private (Service Nos. 0609, 46080 & 5719270). He had served in India and was awarded the Indian Service General Medal with Clasp 'Malabar 1921-22' on his discharge on 3 July 1923. He married Helen Mary Woodward in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, on 30 October, 1930. By the 1939 Register he was living in a house near the School House, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, working as a Motor Lorry Driver. His death was recorded in Sixpenny Handley on 23 January, 1983, in which place he was subsequently buried .