Other Information:Volunteering in 1915, Harty was underage when he enlisted into the RAMC, at 17 years old. According to the National Roll of Honour, he was wounded at the Battle of Cambrai and demobilized on his return to England in August 1919. Harty married Winifred Marion Lenny in Hammersmith, Middlesex (London) on 2 February 1919 and died in 1948 in Sidcup, Kent from collapsed lungs (officially from Tuberculosis but it is believed unofficially by family, from gas poisoning received during his army service). Harty was the sixth child of Harty James and Lissie Wells of 4 Crawley Road, Luton. His elder brother, P.G. Wells, also served, joining the Royal Horse Artillery in 1910 and died of fever on the 19th August 1917, after he had transferred to the 7th Regiment of the South African Infantry. He is buried in Dar-es-Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania. [Information kindly provided by family]
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