10.5287/BODLEIANDQRN.1
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Photographs of Corporal John Henry Kelty
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu190865
2011-12-05 13:38:18.483990
2011-12-05 13:38:18.810822
2011
gwa-9571
Photograph
Corporal 33404 John Henry Kelty, known as Harry was my grandfather. He was born in Newton Heath Manchester in 1890.
He was in the territorial army before joining the Manchester Regiment for war service.
He became a sergeant (gas NCO) and was transferred between battalions due, I assume, to losses. He was wounded and returned to England spending time in No. 1 War Hospital Reading and another hospital which I do not know it's name. My grandfather is on the right hand end of the third row.
He did not return to the front due to losing a large portion of his right calf muscle from the gunshot wound. He was eventually discharged in December 1918. He spent some time in Germany after the war and eventually became a manager of the Yates' Wine Lodge in Manchester.
He died in 1956, a year before my birth.