Harry Gordon Mason

In 1911 Harry was 14 years old. He was born in Stamford in 1896. His parents were William & Ada (nee Chambers) Mason In 1901 his father was a widower his wife having died early in 1901. The family, including his younger sister Marion, was living at 4 St Peter’s Hill. By 1911 they had moved to 20 Belton Street (now demolished). His father had remarried ( Maggie Ritchie from Dundee). Harry now had a stepbrother William and a step sister Mildred. His father was a Surveyor’s Clerk and later Auctioneer, Valuer & Estate Agent. Harry was at school. Before joining the army he was employed as a Builder’s Clerk for Mr E Howes , Stamford.
On 17th November 1913 Private H.G. Mason (Reg. No. 1969) enlisted in Stamford joining the 4th Batt. Lincolnshire Regiment Territorial Force. He served ‘at home’ from 5th August 1914 until 28th February 1915. On 1st February 1915 he was posted with the Expeditionary Force to France. Two months later on 10th April 1915 he was killed in action. On this day British forces were engaged in laying and detonating explosives to destroy ‘Hill 60’ in the Ypres Salient.
Harry Gordon Mason is remembered in Lindenhoek Military Cemetery in Belgium and on the Stamford War Memorial. His sister Marion received her brother’s possessions at ‘Lawnwood’, Little Bytham. This was also the address of his father William who later in 1920 received the Scroll.