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HAROLD MOUNTAIN

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Rank
Gunner
Regiment
MACHINE GUN CORPS INFANTRY 102ND COMPANY LINCS EAST RIDING
Military Number
44637
Address
49, WESTBOURNE GROVE, HESSLE, HULL, HU13 0QG
Background

BORN BROUGH, ON 23/09/1898. SON OF CHARLES MOUNTAIN (1868-1943) & ELIZABETH JOHNSON (1870-1949), OF 14, CARLTON GROVE, BRIDLINGTON (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 49, WESTBOURNE GROVE, HESSLE, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS, 22/10/1917).

HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 44637, MACHINE GUN CORPS.  DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 08/10/1917, AGED 19.

BURIED AT TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "A SECRET THOUGHT A SILENT TEAR KEEP THEIR MEMORY EVER DEAR"

HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/10/1917, BY HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS.

HIS BROTHER, GUNNER. CHARLES MOUNTAIN, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, WAS KILLED ON 24/04/1917, AGED 20.

Date Died
08/10/1917
Died
TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Age
19
Memorial
35 Tynecotstraat
TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM
Zonnebeke 8980

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