| Surname: | Berry |
| Initials: | L H |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 341 |
| Notes: | MMP. 4/7/86 enlisted 10 Hussars, No 2420, 16/1/92 transferred to MMP. Formerly served in the Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, enlisted age 19/11 years, occupation Groom, address: 26 park Grove, Battersea, London. Served Home 4/7/86 to 15/3/94, Egypt 16/3/94 to 11/11/94, Home 12/11/94 to 30/6/98. 5/9/94 tried by DCM for being drunk on duty awarded 42 field punishment, sentence later cancelled. 19/9/94 transferred to 7 Dragoon Guards, No. 4108. 30/6/98 discharged. Lester Harvey Berry. Extract from the Northampton Mercury 10 February 1928. FUNERAL - The funeral too place at Weedon on Wednesday of Mr Lester Harvey Berry, for many years foreman at the Royal Army Ordnance Department. Mr Berry, who was 61, was an old soldier having served in the 11th Hussars, 7 Dragoon Guards and Military Mounted Police. He joined the Ordnance Department at Pimlico in January, 1897 and was transferred to Weedon in 1902, serving there until ill health caused his retirement less than three weeks ago. Mr Berry was accorded a semi military funeral, the coffin covered with the Union Jack, being borne on a gun carriage lent by the Commandant, Equitation School. |