Harry VINTNER

12 October 1917

A STEETON SOLDIER WOUNDED

Mrs. Harry Vintner, Station Road, Steeton, a married daughter of the late Mr. Jonathan Brown, received word on Wednesday morning that her husband, Private Harry Vintner, West Yorkshire Regiment, had been wounded and gassed and was in a base hospital in France. Private Vintner joined up 10 months ago and had been in France since last spring.

18 January 1918

SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN – Wounded and Missing

Mrs. Harry Vintner, the wife of a Steeton soldier, who with her five children resides at 15, Station Road, on Tuesday received an official notification that her husband, Private Vintner, West Riding Regiment, had been wounded and missing since December 12th. Wounded on the 26th of September, the missing soldier on recovery rejoined his battalion on the Western Front in November, and the last correspondence received from him stated he had just come from a spell in the trenches.

13 September 1918

STEETON-WITH-EASTBURN – MORE BAD NEWS: Presumed Dead

The worst fears of another two Steeton families have been realised, as during the past week, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Wilson, Bank House Farm, Steeton, and Mrs. Harry Vintner, Station Road, have been notified that their son and husband respectively were presumed dead since last December as since then no trace of them can be found. Private George Wilson, who was 23 years of age, joined the Duke of Wellington’s in January 1915, and went to France in February 1917. He was included in the list of men missing from his battalion after heavy fighting last November. In civil life Private Wilson was in the employ of John Dixon and Sons, and the other brother is serving in France with the R.F.A.

13 September 1918

STEETON-WITH-EASTBURN – Widow’s Sad Loss

Mrs. Harry Vintner is left with five young children to mourn the loss of her husband, Private Harry Vintner, who joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in October 1916. He went to France January 1917, and was missing last December. He is presumed killed or dead since the 12th of that month. Thirty-nine years of age, Private Vintner was previous to joining up employed by Hill Brothers dobby makers, Keighley.

27 September 1918

STEETON-WITH-EASTBURN – Memorial Service

A large congregation was present on Sunday afternoon at the Primitive Methodist Church, the occasion being a memorial service to the memory of Lance Corporal John A. Butterfield, Private Harry Wood, Private Harry Vintner, Private George Wilson who have fallen in battle, or died of wounds, and who were identified with the Church and Sunday School.

The officiating minister, Rev. C. R. Dalton, paid a touching tribute to the memory of the deceased soldiers. The hymns were appropriate for the occasion.