Thanks again Newburychap;Harry Haines Maccabee is of the line I'm following.Haines was his mother's maiden name.Does the war memorial say where in India he died?To be on the memorial I guess he must have died in military conflict?
Lizziebee
Everything that is on the memorials is on the website - as is a link to Harry's entry in the CWGC database.
He died on the Somme, not in India - he was in India in 1911 (census) with the 2nd Bat, Royal Berks Regt, they were brought back to England when war broke out and sent to France.
In general war memorials carry the names of those who died in service (not necessarily in conflict) or as a result of their service (died following their discharge of wounds received or illness contracted while in the force). One lad on the Winterbourne memorial died of spinal meningitis within a month of being conscripted - never got further from home than Cosham. Another I have researched contracted TB within days of arriving in Salonika, probably never got near any action, he was invalided home. discharged, and died within a few months. Another went through Gallipoli (wounded), France (wounded) and was eventually captured - contracted TB in a POW camp, invalided home, discharged, died within a few weeks.
These last two are not even commemorated on the CWGC database - but they are remembered on their village/town memorials. I shall attempt to get the CWGC to add them to their database and to take over the care of their graves.
However, Harry did die on the battlefield almost certainly in an attack on Metz-en-Couture.
