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Personal Details of Harry Withers

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Died:	22/05/1940
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Please note that this person is not acutally buried in Newtown Road Cemetery, but is remembered here on a family grave or memorial.

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Harry Withers.

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War Memorial

Harry Withers is not buried in Newtown Road Cemetery.
However a war memorial was erected by family members so that they could honour the memory of their loved one who was killed overseas in the service of their country.

Name:	Harry Withers
Service:	4th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Service number:	5379361
Rank:	Private
Date of death:	22/05/1940
Age at death:	33
Other information:
Link to Commonwealth War Grave Commission entry:	Click Here
Link to West Berkshire Memorials entry:	Click Here

Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Harry Withers.
Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	"On headstone: In cherished memory of / my beloved husband/ Pte. H. Withers/ killed in action May 1940 / aged 33/ Until the day break./ In treasured and / grateful memory of / a devoted husband and father, / Jonathan Green / who died 24t Oct. 1948/ aged 75.// On top of S kerbstone: Also dear mother, Elizabeth Annie Green, died 29th April 1965 aged 76// On flower holder: Harry//"

Name on Memorial	H WITHERS
Date of death	05/05/1940
Age	33
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Kerbstones with headstone
Construction Material	Pink granite
Condition of memorial	Kerbstones with headstone and flower holder. Lettering
Pattison Location Code	Ch35
Others named on memorial
JONATHAN GREEN
Elizabeth Annie GREEN

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Harry Withers.

Harry Withers

HARRY WITHERS

ELIZABETH ANNIE (née Hazell) became the wife of JOHN FRENCH when they married in 1908: he was killed in action in WW1 in France on 25th September, 1915.

She remarried JONATHAN GREEN in 1916.

Elizabeth and John’s last child WINIFRED was born in 1914. She went on to marry HARRY WITHERS in 1935. Harry was killed in action in WW2 on 22nd May, 1940.

Harry is buried in Belgium but is commemorated on the gravestone of Elizabeth Annie and Jonathan Green, his mother-in-law and step father-in-law.

An extended family history may be found under John French on the West Berkshire War Memorials website.

Author: Brian Sylvester
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Harry Withers

HARRY WITHERS

Pte Harry Withers (1907 – 1940) does not appear to be related to George with the shop. Harry was one of the large family of Withers from Newbury and Enborne. He was my Nan’s 3^rd cousin. He was born in Newbury on 25 April 1907 to Ernest Withers (1872-1954) and his wife Edith Blanche (formerly Bellinger) (1878-1932) and grew up at 2 Old Newtown Road. He was killed in action on 22 May 1940and is buried at Bruyelle in Belgium. He had married Winifred Caroline French in St John’s in 1937 and the other two people in his grave are is mother-in-law ,Elizabeth Annie (formerly Hazel) and her second husband Jonathan Green. Her first husband, John French, was killed at the Somme in 1915.

Harry Withers

HARRY WITHERS

Harry, known to family and friends as “Shackie” was my uncle from the Withers family who lived in the Old Newtown Road. As RBH said above, he was killed at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation and was part of the Angle French group that were protecting the beach from the advance of German Troops. His grave is in Bruyelle ,Belgium, he was 33 years old (a professional soldier) and left a wife, Winnie.

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