Driver Harry Albert Quick
27th Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers
Died in Military Service
Date of Birth: 1 January 1865
Place of Birth: Kingsteignton, Devon
Date of Death: 9 November 1918 aged 53
Buried: Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece.Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michael’s Church Memorial, Teignmouth, Devon.
Awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
Driver Harry Albert Quick age 53.
Born 1 January 1865 and baptised on 15 January in Hackney, Kingsteignton, the son of George, a labourer, and Mary Quick. The 1871 census showed him living with his parents and siblings at Hackney, Kingsteignton. In 1881 he was at the same address and working as a groom. By 1891 he was living here with his widowed mother and now working as a gardener.
Harry married Katherine Mary Hole from Teignmouth in 1893. The 1901 census showed him living with his wife, Catherine, and their two daughters at 6 Lower Brook Street, Teignmouth, he was working as a gardener. 1911 showed him living as a boarder in Foresters Terrace, Teignmouth and working as a nurseryman/gardener. His wife was working as a live-in housekeeper in Bayswater, London; the two daughters are living with her.
Royal Engineers
Cap Badge
He enlisted at Exeter with the Royal Engineers, service number T/4280. Harry later transferred to 27th Division Signal Company Royal Engineers, service number 510351, and was serving with them when he died in Salonika on 9 November 1918.
Buried in Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery, Greece. Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michael's Church Memorial, Teignmouth.
Grave Inscription reads: "For Ever In Our Memory". Paid for by his daughter Adelphine.
