D.VII.3 JOHN WILLIAM HARVEY

Marriage Certificate for -

D. VIII. 3. HARVEY John William. Private, 3/7928, 5th Dorsetshire Regiment. Born 1876 at Parkstone, baptised 2 July 1876 at Kinson St Clement Dorset to Enos and Dorcas Harvey. 1881 residing with his parents and siblings at Newtown, Kinson. 1891 residing with his parents and siblings at Ringwood Road, Kinson, Dorset. Died of dysentery, in St Georges Hospital, Valletta, Malta 21st November 1915, aged 41 years. His widow was granted a war gratuity on the 10 March 1916 and revised 12 August 1919, she was then called Mary E Butler, wife of Frank H Butler.
Some notes from what remains of his army records.
He joined up at Parkstone 3rd September 1914 aged 37 and 4 months, occupation a labourer and lived at Poole Dorset. He was married 15th March 1915 at St James church, Pool, Dorset to Miss Mary Emma Cherrett. He was aged 37 years, a private with the 3rd Dorset Regt stationed at Upton Camp, she was aged 32 and living at 16 Wise Street, Poole. They had one child; Winifred Charlotte Elizabeth Harvey born at Poole on the 17th May 1915. After he had completed his training, he was sent to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the 28th August 1915 to Gallipoli. At some stage he contracted dysentery and he invalided to St Georges Hospital, Malta on Hospital Ship, Nevasa. He was reported as dangerously ill from dysentery on the 14th November 1915 and he died 21st November 1915. In 1917 his widow had remarried and was called Mary Emma Butler, wife of Frank H Butler and was living at Red Cottage, Ringwood Newtown, Parkstone, Dorset.

At rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta Plot D Row VIII Grave 3.