Harry Karasek

Rifleman Harris ("Harry") Karasek was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1895, at Mile End, the son of German-born parents Isidore, an engineer and repairer of sewing machines, and Bertha Karasek. At the time of the 1911 Census, Karasek was working as a machiner while living with his family at 26 Plumbers Row.
Karasek died on 16 October 1916, succumbing to wounds in German captivity. He had been serving on the Western Front with the 16th Rifle Brigade and had enlisted in 1915.
He is buried in Gottingen Jewish Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Karasek, H, cwgc.org. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
Category:1895 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in Germany
Category:Rifleman