1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Harry Adolphus Silvester

Contributed by: Philip Silvester, on 2008-11-11

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Rank
First Name Harry Adolphus
Surname Silvester
Year of Birth 1885
Year of Death 1962
Regiment London Regiment
Place of Wartime Residence Deptford, Kent

Harry Adolphus's Story

9th London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). Joined up in 1914. Saw action at Hill 60 when Second Lieutenant Woolley won his VC for the QVRs. Later in the war was shot in the leg, survived the war and went on to have 9 children with Carrie Hammond (nee Tuckett).

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