ISOB King, H.
Details:
Grave: Plot 32, Row A, Grave 19 [XXXII. A. 19.] in the American Section.
A grave similar to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission upright Gravestone.
Private Harry A. King served in the US Army (3rd US Cavalry, F Troop) during the First World War. He was born in Britain ( Heybridge, Tean, Stoke-on-Trent) in 1892 and immigrated to the US in 1912. He enlisted in the US Army in 1917 and was sent to France. He died in the Spanish Flu in September 1918 in Bourbonne-les-Bains, France.
He was initially buried at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France, but at the request of his British family, he as moved to the Lijssenthoek Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Belgium to be close to his brother, Reginald, who fell in 1917 while serving in the British Army (Army Service Corps~Mechanical Transport attached 25th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery) and lies in Grave XXI. H. 17.
Monument Text:
HARRY A.
KING
NEW YORK
PVT., 3 CAV, U.S.A.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1918
THE BEST OF SONS
AND BROTHERS
ALSO REGGIE
BURIED CLOSE BY
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
3rd Cavalry Regiment
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Wars:
WWI
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