Pte Harry [also Henry] Dennis Gutteridge, 27949, 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, was presumed killed in action on the Somme on February 5th, 1917 - the last time he was seen alive, but wounded.

Pte Gutteridge joined up in April 1916 and went to France on July 27th. In early March 1917 official intimation was received that he was wounded on February 5th, but no news had been received by either the War Office or the British Red Cross in the weeks since.

Prior to going into he Army, Harry Gutteridge was employed as a straw hat stiffener by hat manufacturer J. W. Garrard & Co, George Street. His widowed mother lived at 8 Holly Walk and his widowed wife, Martha Ann Charlotte, with her parents, William and Elizabeth Preece, at 207 North Street, Luton. Harry had married Martha in 1915.