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Lt Henry Alan Cheshire “Harry” Gearing

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Lt Henry Alan Cheshire “Harry” Gearing Veteran

Birth
India
Death
16 Mar 1917 (aged 32)
Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England
Burial
Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England Add to Map
Plot
I, 1, 40
Memorial ID
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Son of Henry George Gearing and Mary Ann (Grinnol) Gearing. Christened 25 November 1884 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.

Brother of Mary Helen Eliza Gearing (b. 1872), Lilian Isabella Maria Gearing (b. 1874), Eliza Jane Gearing (b. 1880), Harold Grinole Gearing (b. 1886), Lady Hope Gladys (Gearing) Masterman (b. 1890), and Dorothy Ewing Gearing (b. 1895).

Husband of Bertha Gearing.

A secretary and accountant before the Great War, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 22 April 1915 and assigned to the 17th Company, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.

In Cairo on 21 July 1915, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and in London in April 1916 he was discharged from the Australian Army on medical grounds.

Requiescat in pace.
Son of Henry George Gearing and Mary Ann (Grinnol) Gearing. Christened 25 November 1884 in Calcutta, Bengal, India.

Brother of Mary Helen Eliza Gearing (b. 1872), Lilian Isabella Maria Gearing (b. 1874), Eliza Jane Gearing (b. 1880), Harold Grinole Gearing (b. 1886), Lady Hope Gladys (Gearing) Masterman (b. 1890), and Dorothy Ewing Gearing (b. 1895).

Husband of Bertha Gearing.

A secretary and accountant before the Great War, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 22 April 1915 and assigned to the 17th Company, Royal Australian Army Service Corps.

In Cairo on 21 July 1915, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and in London in April 1916 he was discharged from the Australian Army on medical grounds.

Requiescat in pace.

Inscription

"Lieutenant
H.A.C. Gearing
Aust. Army Service Corps
16th March 1916 Age 31."



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