JASPER Harry

  • First Name(s):
    Harry 
  • Surname:
    JASPER
  • Service Number:
    30246
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    25th January 1917
  • Age At Death:
    25
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, Grave XIX. G. 7.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Ambrose and Elizabeth Jasper, 26 Bold’s Lane, Wollescote, Stourbridge, Worcestershire

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JASPER Harry Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window
Wollescote School

Further Information About JASPER Harry

Harry Jasper attended Wollescote school.  He was an iron-plate worker and he enlisted in the Worcesters in May 1915.  After his training he was sent to join the 9th Battalion in Mesopotamia.  He had only been there a short time when the long planned advance up the Tigris to Kut was started.  The Worcesters attacked at Amara over terrain without cover on the 25th January and suffered heavy casualties.  One of the many who died was Private Harry Jasper.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.