HARRY BISCOE

Born: 1876, Teddington, Middlesex.

Died: 4th May 1915; age 41; KiA.

Residence: Ipswich.

Enlistment: Chelsea, Middlesex.

Occupation: Master Greengrocer.

Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: S/4991.

Regiment: Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Memorial Reference:
Panel 46-48 & 50.
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial,
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.

CENSUS
 
1881   94, Hanover Street, St. George Hanover Square, London.

Harry was 4 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Thomas Biscoe, 36, a Bricklayer, born Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.
Mary Biscoe (nee Petts), 32, born Sawbridgeworth.
Thomas William Biscoe, 9, born Sawbridgeworth.
Edith Biscoe, 7, born Pimlico.
Florence Blanche E. Biscoe, 2, born Pimlico.
Cornelius Frank Biscoe, 6 months, born Pimlico.

1891   2, Winchester Street, Pimlico.

Harry was 14 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Thomas, 46, a Bricklayer.
Mary, 42.
Florence, 12.
Frank, 10.
Arthur Alfred Biscoe, 8, born Pimlico.
George Biscoe, 2, born Pimlico.

1911   84, Glamorgan Street, Pimlico, S.W.

Harry was 36 years old, a Greengrocer – employer. He was married and Head of the Household.
Bella, 28, Assisting in the business.
Alice, 2 months.
1 boarder & employee.

Harry’s mother Mary Biscoe died, 1912, Chelsea, Middlesex.

On the 16th August 1906, at the Register Officer, St. George Hanover Square, London, Harry married, Arabella Elizabeth Leverick, born 1883, Akenham, Suffolk.

They had 4 children:

Mabel Dorothy May Biscoe, March 1907, 2, Winchester Street, Pimlico.

Doris Rose Biscoe, born May 1908, 84, Glamorgan Street, Pimlico.

Alice Mary Shelia Lydia Biscoe, born February 1911, 84, Glamorgan Street, Pimlico.

Harry James Biscoe, born September 1913, 84, Glamorgan Street, Pimlico.

Harry’s brother Arthur Alfred Biscoe, was KiA on the 6th July 1915. Arthur was a Corporal, in The Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion. He is also buried at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium – both Arthur & Harry are remembered on the same panel – 46-48 & 50.

Soldiers’ Effects to Arabella Elizabeth Biscoe – widow.

THE RIFLE BRIGADE 4th Battalion : http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/the-rifle-brigade-1914-1918/