Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Harry Greasley, an iron pipe moulder, born 1871 in Stapleford, Notts., and his wife Annie Elizabeth Greasley (nee Pearson, married 1895), born 1871 in Whittington Moor, Derbys. Harry was born in 1897 in Stapleford, Notts., in March 1901 the family home was at Mount Street, Stapleford, Notts. In April 1911 Harry was employed as an apprentice moulder and was residing in the family home at Asfordby Hill, Leics., together with his parents and sister, Letty, born 1902 in Stapleford, Notts. The family later resided at 16, Lot Street, Stapleford, Notts. Harry enlisted on the 9th August 1915 and embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 25th September 1916, joining his unit, the Hood Battalion on the 25th November 1916, and serving with this unit until he suffered a shell wound to his right arm on the 5th February 1917, and was invalided home to England on the 10th February 1917. He embarked to re-join the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 9th July 1917 and re-joined the Hood Battalion on the 5th August 1917 and served with it until he suffered a shell wound to his right side and neck on the 27th October 1917 and was admitted to the 47th Casualty Clearing Station at Lozinghem, Belgium where he died as a result of his wounds on the 27th October 1917. On Friday November 9th 1917 The Melton Mowbray Times & Vale of Belvoir Gazette published the following article under the heading. “LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS.” – ASFORDBY. – PTE. H. GREASLEY KILLED. – News has come to hand that Pte. H. Greasley has died abroad from wounds received in action. Prior to joining the forces Pte. Greasley was employed at the Holwell Iron Co’s Works, where his father has also been employed for a number of years, and every sympathy is expressed with the bereaved parents in the death of their only son.