Harry Ryals Burgess

Rank:SergeantNumber:7124
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:11th Bn
Name of Rgt or Ship:Royal Fusiliers (City of London Rgt)
Died:26/09/16Age:23
How Died:Killed in Action
Country of burial:France
Cemetery or Memorial:Thiepval Memorial, Somme
Town Memorial:Mobberley
Extra Information:
Born during the June quarter 1893 in the Salford R.D. - ref: 8d/70, the
only child of Henry & Amy Alice Bugess (nee Ball).

1901 Census - Cross Lane, Marple, Cheshire.   Son - aged: 7 - born:
Salford.   Head of household - Henry Burgess - Married - aged: 38 - occ:
Solicitor's Managing Clerk - born: Manchester.   Also - Amy A. Burgess -
Wife - aged: 37 - born: Salford.

1911 Census - 33 Queen's Avenue, Old Trafford, Stretford.   Son - aged: 17
- occ: Engineer's Cashire - born: Salford.   Head of household - Henry
Burgess - Married - aged: 47 - occ: Managing Clerk - born: Manchester.  
Also - Amy Alice Burgess - Wife - aged: 47 - born: Stutton, Suffolk.

Employed in the O.M. Section of the Manchester Special Police.

Member of the Lower Moseley Street Social Club, Manchester.

Enlisted in June 1915.

Death reported in the 24/11/1916 edition of the Altrincham Guardian.

Listed in the Guardian Year Book - Roll of Honour for 1917.

Commemorated in The Mobberley Parish Council's Booklet - "1914-2014,
Remembering the Men from Mobberley who went to War for their Country" - per
Alistair MacLeod.
Memorials found on:
St. Wilfred's (Mobberley)
Manchester Grammar School
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