Person    | Male  Born 5/3/1896  Died 9/10/1916

Harry F. Salter

Countries: France

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Harry F. Salter

Soldier in the Queen Victoria Rifles killed in Combles.

Andrew Behan has researched Salter: Serjeant Harry Francis Salter was born on 5 March 1896 in Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire, the elder son and the second of the the four children of Harry Salter and Agnes Anne Salter née Brown. His father was a Clerk. On 29 April 1896 he was baptised at St Cleopas Church in Toxteth and the family address was 7 Plevna Road, Toxteth. The 1911 census shows him living with his parents and three siblings at 'Ivycote', Quickley Lane, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire and whilst he was shown as still at school his father's occupation was recorded as a Railway Clerk.

In 1913 he joined the Territorial Army by enlisting in the 1st/9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). He entered France on 5 November 1914 and was killed in action, aged 20 years, on 9 October 1916. As he has no known grave he is commemorated on Pier and Face 9c of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Picardy, France. His army effects totalling £11-0s-4d were sent to his father at 91 Whitefriars Avenue, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex. His father was also sent a £12-10s-0d war gratuity on 29 September 1919. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star with the '5th August - 22nd November 1914' clasp, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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