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Details:

Grave: Plot 32, Row A, Grave 19 [XXXII. A. 19.] in the American Section.

Isolated Burial


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:

Harry Arthur  King

Units:

3rd Cavalry Regiment

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Wars:

WWI

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