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HARRY MOUNSOR

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Rank
Sapper
Regiment
ROYAL ENGINEERS GHQ SIGNAL COMPANY
Military Number
254937
Address
13, Melwood Grove, Beverley Road, Hull, HU5 1AY
Background

BORN HOWDEN, 1892. SON OF JOHN MOUNSOR (1849-1922)& LATE ELIZA WEBSTER (1858-1913), OF 13, MELWOOD GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).  SON OF  A TANNER'S LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS - ARTHUR, HORACE, TOM & ALBERT (ITALY).

HE WORKED AS A SLATER'S LABOURER (1911 CENSUS) AND EX NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER.

HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH "G" CORPS SIGNAL COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 01/10/1917, AGED 25.

HE IS BURIED AT LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE READS, "EVER IN THOUGHT".

HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ST MARYS CHURCH MEMORIAL, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.

Name Harry Mounsor
Birth Place Newport, Yorks
Death Date 1 Oct 1917
Death Place France and Flanders
Enlistment Place Hull
Rank Pioneer
Regiment Royal Engineers
Regimental Number 254937
Type of Casualty Died of wounds
Theatre of War Western European Theatre
Comments "G" CORPS SIGNAL COY., R.E.

NB: MOUNSER'S LIVING AT 70 & 74 EXCHANGE STREET HULL

Date Died
01/10/1917
Died
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM
Age
25
Memorial
Addison Bridge Place
London W14 8XP

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