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- HASKELL, Private Harry James No.10977 5th Bn.
Born Sept. 4, 1893, at Ampfield, Hampshire, the son of the late Harry Haskell, a painter on
Sir George A. Cooper's Hursley Park Estate, and Anne (née Bone) Haskell of Ampfield. He was educated at Church Scholl, Ampfield.
On Sept. 7, 1915, he enlisted in the 5th Dorsets at Blandford, Dorset, at which time he was living at Ampfield. He was unmarried. On Aug. 10, 1915, in the vicinity of Kiretch Tepe Sirt, Suvla, he was received a gunshot wound in the left leg, and was evacuated to Malta onboard H.M. Hospital Ship Neuralia. He arrived at Malta on Aug. 29. On the following day (Aug. 30) his leg was amputated above the knee, but tetanus set in shortly after and he died the following day at 6 p.m. (Aug. 31, 1915), aged 21 years.
He was buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta, the same day.
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UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Harry James Haskell
Birth Place: Ampfield, Hants
Residence: Ampfield
Death Date: 31 Aug 1915
Death Place: Malta
Enlistment Place: Blandford, Dorset
Rank: Private
Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion:5th Battalion
Regimental Number: 10977
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Other areas
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