Lance Corporal Harry Pickering Maskery

Army Number : 3787

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Sandiacre, Derbyshire. Son of John and Hettie Maskery, of 22, Bridge Street, Sandiacre. He was an iron moulder prior to enlisting 28th April 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France 4th November 1914 with the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and suffered frostbite, being admitted to the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul, France, 2nd February 1916. He was admitted to the Rawal Pindhi General Hospital. Wimereux, France, and transferred to England on Hospital Ship St. Patrick, 3rd February 1916. He returned to France 15th January 1917, was posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 18th February 1917 and appointed Lance Corporal, 5th March 1917. He was killed in action, 10th June 1917, by German shellfire, whilst serving in the line at St. Jean, Belgium.

Buried : Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 10.