Harry C. SHEARER

118191, Gunner. b. 1890, Bradford d. Thu. 25th April 1918 (aged 27).

Having grown up in Clayton Harry worked as a Plasterer for J.W. Sugden and Co. of Manningham before the war.

He was married to Ethel and the couple lived at 5, Ashmount, Lidget Hill, Lidget Green, Bradford. He was also a former member and teacher at the Trinity Baptist Chapel. His attestation papers show his address as 41 Collins St, Great Horton, and his wife Ethels address has been changed to 5 Ashmount.

He was enlisted into the 263rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in early 1917 and went to France in the middle of that year. Over the next few months Harry avoided injury, and it was not until the second month of the German Spring Offensive that he was killed in action by a German artillery shell that landed on his battery.

Harry was buried on 25 April and then later at La Clytte Military Cemetery, De Klijt, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.