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Harry Bernard Farnath

Service Number 266438
Military Unit 2/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 26 Sep 1917 (22 Years Old)
Place of Birth Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies Harry Farnath worked as a packer in a cotton mill.
Family History

Harry Bernard Farnath was the son of Samuel Farnath and Emma Cross who married in Nottingham in 1893. Samuel had previously married Clara Ellen Stevenson who married in Nottingham in 1883. This first marriage produced several children including: Percy (b.1887) and Stanley (b.1889). Clara Ellen Farnath died at Nottingham, aged 28, in 1891. The second marriage produced Harry Bernard (b.1895), plus Edith Evelyn (b.1897) and Louisa Catherine (b.1904). The Farnath family homes identified were: 50 Garden Street, Radford [C.1901]; 98 Hartley Road, Radford [C.1911]; 80 Trafalgar Road, Radford [CWGC]. Samuel Farnath, who was described as a beast salesman in the 1901 census, died at Nottingham, aged 46, in 1910. Emma Farnath, now a widow, worked at home as a plain net mender. She didn’t remarry and eventually died in Nottingham, aged 88, in 1960.

Military History

Farnath enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action. Tyne Cot Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave Reference: X H 15

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