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  • Mexico
  • Mexico
  • Heywood, Lancashire
  • Son of George A. and Mona Gertrude Hartington, of Heywood, Lancs. Three brothers (George, Charles and Luis) and three sisters.
  • Bury Grammar School
  • Military man

Military service

  • December 1914
  • Lieutenant
  • M C
  • 164th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
  • 1st/5th - Bn. - Lancashire Fusiliers
  • To France 3 May 1915; seconded to the 164th Coy, Machine Gun corps (January 1916); Battle of the Somme; promotion to 1st lieutenant; 3rd Battle of Ypres

Death

  • 12 July 1917
  • Hit in the stomach by a piece of brass from a 4.5" shell cartridge; died in n° 10 CCS
  • 21
  • XIII - A - 1

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