HARRY WITHERS

Pte Harry Withers (1907 – 1940) does not appear to be related to George with the shop.  Harry was one of the large family of Withers from Newbury and Enborne.  He was my Nan’s 3^rd cousin.  He was born in Newbury on 25 April 1907 to Ernest Withers (1872-1954) and his wife Edith Blanche (formerly Bellinger) (1878-1932) and grew up at 2 Old Newtown Road.  He was killed in action on 22 May 1940and is buried at Bruyelle in Belgium.  He had married Winifred Caroline French in St John’s in 1937 and the other two people in his grave are is mother-in-law ,Elizabeth Annie (formerly Hazel) and her second husband Jonathan Green.  Her first husband, John French, was killed at the Somme in 1915.

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