Harry TOWN

04 August 1916

ADDINGHAM MEN WOUNDED

We regret to announce that Pte. Harry Town, son of Mr. E. Town, Low Mill, Addingham, who is with the A.S.C. motor transport, attached to the 70th Siege Battalion [Battery] R.G.A., has been wounded and is in hospital at Havre.

13 October 1916

ADDINGHAM SOLDIER’S LETTERS

Pte. H. Town, A.S.C., motor transport, writes [to Mr. Flint]:– “Received letter with P.O., for which accept my best thanks. We have been very near the firing line for about a week – they sent us a few shells over every night, but, of course, this is nothing to what the infantry have to go through. The town was practically deserted of civilian population and all the houses were more or less damaged by shellfire, the Church having suffered the worst, as most others have done. Sorry to see there have been so many casualties amongst the Addingham boys.”

16 February 1917

ADDINGHAM SOLDIERS’ LETTERS

Mr. Flint has received the following letters in acknowledgment of parcels sent out:–

Other letters and post-cards acknowledging receipt of parcels have been received from Sergt. Jack Brown, Ptes. W. Burke, Harry Town, J. Parkinson, N. Ryder, F.W. Sutcliffe, and C. Smith.

23 March 1917

TOWN – March 19th, at Netley Hospital, Pte. Harry Town, of the Army Service Corps, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Town, of Low Mill Lane, Addingham, aged 23.

23 March 1917

ADDINGHAM SOLDIERS KILLED

We regret to record the death of another Addingham soldier. Mr. Edward Town, of Low Mill Lane, received a wire on Monday evening to say that his youngest son, Harry Town, of the Motor Transport Section, Army Service Corps, had died in Netley Hospital from pneumonia. Town, who was 23 years of age, joined the Army in February, 1916, and was out at the front eight months, being invalided on Boxing Day to Netley Hospital, where he had been an inmate up to the day of his death. Previous to the war he was employed by Messrs. Lister and Co., Low Mills. He has another brother serving with the forces.

30 March 1917

ADDINGHAM – THE LATE PRIVATE H. TOWN

The funeral of Pte. H. Town, of the Motor Transport Section, son of Mr. E. Town, Low Mill, whose death in Netley Hospital was reported last week, took place on Saturday with military honours. The body was carried from the house to the church by members of the 20th West Riding Volunteers, in charge of Sergt. Baker. As the mourners entered the church, Miss Hall played ‘O Rest in the Lord.’ The Rector (Rev. J.W. Hall) conducted the service, and a crowded congregation sang with much feeling ‘Nearer my God to Thee’ and ‘O God our help in ages past.’ As the mourners left the church the organist played the ‘Dead march’ in ‘Saul.’ The Rector also conducted the service at the graveside, after which the military salute was fired and the ‘Last post’ sounded.

The chief mourners were Mr. and Mrs. E. Town, Mr. and Mrs. Schofield (sister), Mr. and Mrs. J. Dixon (sister), Mr. and Mrs. J. Town (brother), Mr. W. Thackray (uncle), Mr. and Mrs. T. Wall (uncle and aunt), Mrs. S Town (Skipton), Mr. J. England, J.P., Mr. W. Kidd, Mr. W. Watson, and workers from Low Mill.

20 April 1917

ADDINGHAM SOLDIERS LETTERS

Mr. Flint has received the following letters in acknowledgment of parcels:–

Ernest Smith writes:– “Pleased to receive parcel. Billy also had a letter from you. We shared the contents between us, as we are the only two Addingham lads in action in the neighbourhood. We have had some Easter weather out here. Billy wakened up on Easter Monday morning covered with snow, real Christmas weather I can assure you. We sent the Boche a few Easter eggs over. We are sorry to hear of Harry Town’s death. It will cast quite a gloom over the village when one after another are called away. I don’t think many other villages have done more than ours has done. We all feel proud of it.”

22 June 1917

ADDINGHAM SOLDIERS LETTERS

Mr. Flint has received the following letters in acknowledgment of parcels sent out:–

Pte. Harry Hudson, of the Cameron Highlanders, writes:– “Thanks for parcel. I had no idea there were so many of the boys from the village who had paid the supreme sacrifice until I saw the paper. I was sorry to hear that Harry Town and Philip Brown had died of wounds. I received your parcel in the trenches, where I am writing this letter, and as soon as old Fritz had quietened down with his shelling I went over to the river and got water, boiled it, and made some good tea which the gun team enjoyed very much. Our artillery has a very hot time of it now, and machine guns too. I have been within half an hour’s walk of Syd. Hadley, but sorry to say I didn’t know until it was too late.”