8th December 2015 Harry was born in Stamford in 1895. He was baptised on 18th September in Oundle. In 1911 he was 15 years old and was living at 57a St Leonard’s Street with his parents John William and Florence (nee Smith) Ringham. His father was born in Stamford and his mother in Oundle (Northants) . His father was a linotype operator for a newspaper. Harry was employed as a clerk for a lime burner’s and builder’s merchant. He was the surviving child of two of the 16 year long marriage. His sister, Ethel May, had died in her first year in 1897. In 1901 they were already living at the same address. Harry enlisted into 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and was later transferred to the 5th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment T.F. 2nd Lt Harry Ringham served in France. Here he was awarded a Military Cross. The London Gazette (4th October 1919) records ‘On the morning of 28th October,1918, during the attack on Vendegies-au-Bois, he (Harry Ringham) displayed gallantry, initiative and tactical ability of a very high order. He, with his platoon of eight men, reconnoitred, and put out of action at least three enemy machine guns. His fine action enabled his company to work forward round Dukes Wood, upon which the enemy resistance collapsed, and the battalion objectives were obtained.’ On 20th October,1921 he applied to the North Staffs. Regiment for his medals (Victoria, British & MC). He married Annie M Dando in Stamford in 1919. Their daughter Muriel was born in 1922 but his wife died in 1929. His mother, Florence, died on 24th December 1942. She was then living at 20 Doughty Street. She died in St George’s Home. Harry was her beneficiary, her probate record reveals that Harry was then a licensed victualler. His father died in 1947 . He was then living at 93 New Cross Road – the address of The Hurdler. The telephone directory of 1959 gives Harry’s address still at The Hurdler in New Cross Road. Harry died in Peterborough in 1974.