Also Served: Harry Cleverley - Harry CLEVERLEY
Serjeant 6251, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Harry Cleverley attested into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 8th September 1898. He was 18 years and 2 months old and had been born in Prescot on 11th July 1877.
It seems likely that his family had originally been from the Coventry area and had moved to Prescot to seek work in the watch making industry, as both areas had significant numbers of people involved in this trade at the time.
On 25th March 1905, he married Emily Corbett in Coventry.
A professional soldier, he served across the world before the war, including Malta (1899), Bermuda (1902), Gibraltar (1904), South Africa (1905), East Indies (1910), Malta (1912) and Albania (1914). He went to France on the 19th October 1914 and on 1st November, less than two weeks later, he was captured at Zillebeke and became a prisoner of war. He was only released in December 1918 and was finally discharged from the army on 6th September 1919.
Harry died in Solihull in 1954 at the age of 76 Ref. No.:
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