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Pte Harry Aldred
British Army 2nd Btn Hampshire Regiment
from:Wenhaston, Suffolk
(d.30th August 1944)
Harry Aldred was engaged to be married to my mother, Elizabeth Dunn Douglas of Blyth Northumberland but he was killed in action on 1st of September 1944 before they could be married. He served in WW2 with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He was aged 24 years.
He is buried in Montecchio War Cemetry, Italy. I believe his father was Arthur Edward and his mother Florence Mary of Wenhaston, Suffolk.