Carole Fife has provided the following:
Harry was born in Widdrington in 1881 to Robert and Emily Lee. His father was an engine winder who had evidently moved in search of work for Harry's eldest brother and sister had been born in Prussia. After leaving school Harry went to work in Newcastle, but in 1909 he married Isabel Watson and went to work as a miner, first in Widdrington and then in Bedlington,. The family lived first in Rothesay Terrace and then across the road in Victoria Terrace. Harry and Isabel had four children- Robert, Harry, Emily and George. Harry enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry as Private 19233, but at the time of his death was serving with the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. He died at the beginning of the Arras offensive, and an item in the 'Blyth News' of November 1917 quotes a letter from an army chaplain to Mrs Lee telling her that Harry, along with his company commander and most other officers, had been killed by sniper fire and that so severe was the fighting that it had been impossible to retrieve their bodies.
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04