WW1 record search help, please.

[england100]

Hi, I am trying to find more info, especially burial info for a Harry Street.  I have info from ancestry under soldiers who died in WWI1 but that is all the info I have. 
 Born Silverdale, Stoke-on-Trent, lived in Hanley, died 12/4/1917, private north Staffs( Prince of Wales Reg) 1st battalion number 10221.  Theater of war given as home.  Place of death is also given as home. Does this mean he went back to his home to die or died somewhere in this country?
I,ve tried looking in the local paper under bereavements but no joy there.  I can't find his enlistment forms or service records either.  Any help most greatfully received. Thanks.

[KGarrad]

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (www.cwgc.org) says:

James Henry (Harry) Street
Private 10221, North Staffordshire Regiment Depot

Buried at Bells Hill Burial Ground, Barnet, Hertfordshire
Reference: Plot C3, Grave 194

Husband of Elizabeth Annie Street, of 3, School St., Leek, Staffs.


Some 70% of the WW1 Service Records were lost in a WW2 bombing raid.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Hill_Burial_Ground

[Godrevy16]

KG got there first 😄 however couldn't find a death reg for him under Harry or Henry Street.
Miffy

[KGarrad]

Death, June qtr 1917
Barnet District     vol 3a, page 888

Street, James H     age 25


Apologies to Miffy52 for getting in first!

[aghadowey]

Found the death in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl but KGarrad beat me to it 

england100- when you were searching the local newspapers for information did you only check the death notices? most of our local papers had a section about news on local servicemen & women and sometimes death details are mentioned there rather than the death notices.

[KGarrad]

That's twice I've beaten someone to it Apologies, again!

I missed the slight difference in name, the first time I looked at CWGC - I was too busy checking the grave details!

Once I had amended my first post, it was easy enough to find him in FreeBMD.

[england100]

Thanks for all your help.  I didn't know he was called James Henry.  I had attached a birth for a Harry Street to him as that is what he was called in the 1911 cencus.  I'll have another look in the paper under sevice men next time I go to the library. Many thanks again,

[Mary8]

James Henry (Harry) Street died at High Barnet  War Hospital
His wife Elizabeth Annie Street was given a war gratuity of £6, 15 shillings and 4 pence on 26th of June 1917.

K 

[england100]

Thanks for all this info.