GULLIVER, Harry

Harry Gulliver lived at 2 Love Lane, Lye, with his wife Alice. He volunteered for the Worcester Territorials and joined the 1/7th Battalion who went to the Western Front in March 1915. They were posted to the Somme front line, which was quiet in that year. The winter of early 1916, however, was among the worst of the century and conditions for the Territorials in the trenches were dire. There were occasional raids and a high level of sickness. Private Harry Gulliver suffered severely in a raid near La Bassée when he was wounded by shrapnel in his back. He was sent to Netley Military Hospital where he died on the 3rd May 1916. He was 25 years of age and is buried in Lye and Wollescote Cemetery (1 1 19). The military funeral with a vast crowd present took place at Lye church and he is commemorated on the Lye and Wollescote and Lye church Memorials.