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Daisy, only dau. of the late Capt. G. Scott, late Scots Greys, and
had a son and dau.: Robert Allan George, _b._ 11 Sept. 1908; and
Daphne, _b._ 20 Aug. 1910.
[Illustration: =Allan Humphrey Harden.=]
=HARDES, JOHN=, Private, No. 2438, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s
Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Alfred
Hardes, 4th Hussars, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of William Loose;
_b._ Fulham, S.W., 3 Sept. 1895; educ. Ashburnham Higher Grade
School, Chelsea, S.W., and being left an orphan at 16, made his home
with Mr. and Mrs. Satchell, of Marlborough Buildings, with the former
of whom he went to Canada in 1912 to work on the Canadian railways.
Returning to England in 1914, he was employed by Messrs. Bull,
Builders, Vauxhall, but when war was declared volunteered and joined
the Kensingtons, 1 Sept 1914. He went to France, 6 Jan. 1915, and died
in No. 7 Clearing Station, 12 March, 1915, from wounds received at
Neuve Chapelle on the 10th; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “It happened
in the morning of the bombardment of Neuve Chapelle, where we were in
the support trenches. We were all mad with excitement, and it appears
that while Jack was jumping up to see the effect of our shells a sniper
shot him through the head.” Buried in Merville Cemetery. When 15 he
joined the Christ Church Chelsea Athletic Club, and became a member of
the Young Men’s Class, and on his return to England he rejoined and
played for the second eleven of the Melton Cricket Club, which won the
Cup in the 4th Division of the Clapham Common League.
[Illustration: =John Hardes.=]
=HARDING, ALFRED=, Private, No. 2124, 3rd Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, _s._ of Worthing Harding, of 53, Lewisham Avenue,
Lewisham Road, Smethwick, Labourer; _b._ Blue Street, Walsall, 14
Feb. 1903; educ. Smethwick and Handsworth Council Schools; emigrated to
Australia in March, 1914; volunteered and enlisted, 8 Oct. following;
and died in Malta, 21 July, 1915, of sunstroke received while on active
service at the Dardanelles, 15 July, 1915; _unm._
=HARDING, ERNEST FRANK=, Private, No. 1630, 7th Battn. The
Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of George Edwin Harding, of 68,
Clonmell Road, Tottenham, by his wife, Beatrice Emma, dau. of the late
Richard Flawn, formerly of the Metropolitan Police; _b._ Friern
Barnet, co. Middlesex, 17 April, 1895; educ. St. James’s School there
and Downhills (Tottenham) Council School; was a Pianoforte Maker;
joined the Middlesex Territorials in the early part of 1912, and was
recalled with his battn. from his third annual training on the outbreak
of war and sent to Gibraltar, Sept. 1914; returned to England, Feb.
1915, and was sent to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action
at Fauquissart, France, 17 June, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in
the Rue Tilleloy there (Graveyard Square M 24A 9.7., Map 36, 3rd Ed.).
The Sergt. of his platoon wrote: “He was shot in the side whilst on
water-carrying fatigue early this morning, and died less than half an
hour after being struck.... He was under me all through his career
as a soldier, and was one of the oldest men, as regards service, in
my platoon. He will be missed by all as a hard working and efficient
soldier and a true comrade.”
[Illustration: =Ernest Frank Harding.=]
=HARDING, GEORGE=, Chief Stoker, 285296, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARDING, HARRY=, Private, No. 9244, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards,
_s._ of Harry Harding, of 17, Rhoda’s Terrace, Strickland Street,
Hull, by his wife, Mary Ann; _b._ Hull, 15 Nov. 1894: educ. Daltry
Street Board School there; enlisted 2 Sept. 1911, went to France 10
Aug. 1914, and died in No. 11 General Hospital at Boulogne, 3 Nov.
1914, of wounds received in action near Ypres, 26 Oct.; _unm._
Buried in Boulogne Cemetery.
=HARDING, LIONEL COX=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Mountain Battery, R.G.A.,
eldest surviving _s._ of the late Judge Herbert Olive Denman
Harding, Madras Civil Service (who was murdered on the verandah of
the District Court, 22 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Sophia Louisa, dau.
of Col. H. W. H. Cox; _b._ Westward Ho, Devon, 23 Aug. 1895;
educ. Westward Ho Junior School, Blundell’s, Tiverton, and Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison
Artillery from Woolwich, 17 Nov. 1914; left for the front with the
5th Mountain Battery, 8 Feb. 1915, and served with the Expeditionary
Force in France, Feb.-June, 1915. At Neuve Chapelle, after the capture
of the village, he spent the rest of the day under fire building
bridges across trenches and channels. On the evening of the 15 June
he successfully took his gun up a shell-swept road and got it into
position. Next morning he bombarded and destroyed a German trench
opposite for an hour and a half. His gun was then damaged and he had
to retire. He got all his men away safely and was himself leaving when
he was struck by shrapnel in ten places. He lay in the trench till
evening, unconscious most of the time--only woke twice--once to inquire
how the battle was going and once to wish to help his men to put on
the gas masks. He was removed to hospital that night, and died on the
evening of the 18th; _unm._ He was buried in a separate grave (No.
1360) in the British Military portion of the Cemetery at Bailleul.
[Illustration: =Lionel Cox Harding.=]
=HARDING, PERCY=, A.B., 221776, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship
was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=HARDING, STANLEY CUTHBERT=, Sapper, Divisional Engineer, R.N.D.,
_s._ of Edwin Banks Harding, of Manchester, Chartered Accountant,
by his wife, Eliza Gertrude, dau. of Jasint Colson, Professor of Music;
_b._ Trunk Farm, co. Hants, 1 April, 1886; educ. Collegiate
School, Aldershot; enlisted 22 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of
war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and died of
enteric on H.M.S. Dongola, 24 Aug. 1915; _unm._ He was buried at
sea between Malta and Gibraltar. The Major-Gen. wrote, speaking highly
of his zeal and devotion to duty, and a testimonial from General Paris
was presented to him on the field at Gallipoli on 29 July, 1915.
[Illustration: =Stanley Cuthbert Harding.=]
=HARDISTY, WILFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22817, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HARDMAN, GEORGE=, Stoker, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARDY, LEONARD BASIL=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire
Regt., only _s._ of Basil Edward Hardy, of 66, Ladbroke Grove,
London, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Janet, dau. of Dr. Leonard Yelf,
of Moreton-in-Marsh; _b._ Kensington, 19 March, 1895; educ.
Wootton Court, near Canterbury; Radley College, where he was Prefect
and head of his house, Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., in which he
obtained Certificate A., and represented the school at both cricket
and football; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to
the Worcestershire Regt. on 30 Sept. 1914, temporarily joining the
5th (Reserve) Battn., then stationed at Plymouth, 1 Oct. 1914. He was
promoted Lieut. on 15 Nov. 1914, and went to France on 1 Jan. 1915,
where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. He was killed in action at
Festubert, 11 Feb. following, while in command of two platoons in
the front trenches, and was buried at Gorre Chateau, near Bethune;
_unm._ He was very popular in the Regt. amongst both officers and
men, and letters from his superior officers speak of him in very high
terms.
[Illustration: =Leonard Basil Hardy.=]
=HARDY, RICHARD JOHN=, Private, No. 760, C Coy., 1st Newfoundland
Regt., 2nd _s._ of James Hardy, Tallyman and Weighmaster, at
Goodridge & Sons, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Abram Bartlett, of
Brigus, Newfoundland; _b._ St. John’s, Newfoundland, 28 Sept.
1894; educ. Bishop Field College there; was an Engineer at Reid;
volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Newfoundland
Expeditionary Force, 16 Dec. 1914; left for England, 5 Feb. 1915; went
to the Dardanelles, 20 Aug., and died on the Hospital Ship Neuralia, 14
Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action there; _unm._ Buried at
sea.
=HARDY, VICTOR HARRIOTT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster
Regt., att. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., yst. _s._ of the
late Capt. Harmer Hardy, 18th Hussars (who served with the 97th
Regt. in the Crimea), by his wife, Helena Hester (now wife of Arthur
Nightingale), of West Hill, Sandown, Isle of Wight, dau. of John Jacob
Cruywagen, of Newlands, and nephew of the late Major-Gen. Frederick
Hardy, C.B., Col., York and Lancaster Regt., _b._ London, 26
June, 1887; educ. Farnborough Park and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy;
was at first intended for the Navy, but after Lord Selborne nominated
him was found to be a fortnight too old, so he instead applied for a
commission in the Army. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the
Militia, 1 March, 1907, and was gazetted to the York and Lancaster
Regt., 20 March, 1909, and was at Blackdown with the 2nd Battn. until
Sept. of the same year, when he left for India to join the 1st Battn.
at Quetta; was promoted Lieut. 4 Oct. 1911, and after three years in
India, returned home for a while; he then went back in Sept. 1912, and
having served there a year, fell a victim to some climatic illness,
and was invalided home, during which time he passed the examination
for promotion to Capt. On mobilisation he was ordered to the 65th
Regimental District, Pontefract, and was selected for duty with the
6th (Service) Battn. of his regt. at Belton Park, near Grantham. After
the Lincolnshire had had some severe losses he was sent to the Front
with a draft of the 1st Battn. of that regt., about 30 Sept.; served in
France and Flanders, and was, it is believed, killed in an attack on a
strong German position across a tract of open country, 27 Oct. 1914. He
was buried at Neuve Chapelle; _unm._ Lieut. Hardy was keen on all
forms of sport, especially riding, and was very fond of animals; he won
the Regimental Cup in the Officers’ races while in the Special Reserve,
and when a 2nd Lieut. carried the King’s Colours on the occasion of
the visit of King George and Queen Mary to India for the Coronation
Durbar. While a boy, Lieut. Hardy won the First Prize in Sandown in a
demonstration to celebrate King Edward’s coronation in 1902.
[Illustration: =Victor Harriott Hardy.=]
=HARDY, WILLIAM FRANK=, Private, No. 179, 1st Newfoundland Regt.,
eldest _s._ of George Francis Hardy, of 60, Monroe Street, St.
John’s, Newfoundland, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Reid;
_b._ St. John’s, 23 Sept. 1893; educ. Springdale Street School,
St. John’s, was a Truckman; enlisted after the outbreak of war in Aug.
1914; left for England, 4 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, and was
killed in action there, 23 Sept. 1915; _unm._
=HARE, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1863),
Ch./11963, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HAREWOOD, GEORGE=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARGRAVE, GEOFFREY LEWIS=, Private, No. 41, 13th Battn., 4th
Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of the
late Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, N.S.W., Engineer, by his wife,
Margaret (Wunulla Road, Woollahra Point, Sydney), dau. of David
Johnston, of Sydney; _b._ Sydney, 21 March, 1892; educ. Sydney
Grammar School; was an Engineer; enlisted soon after the outbreak of
war, Sept. 1914; left for Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at
the Dardanelles, 25 April; and was killed in action there about 24 May,
1915, being buried in Anzac Cove; _unm._
[Illustration: =Geoffrey Lewis Hargrave.=]
=HARGREAVES, HARRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch./1762. H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=HARGREAVES, ROBERT=, Private, No. 12/307, 6th Hauraki Coy.,
Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of
the late Peter Hargreaves, of Napier; _b._ Waipawa, New Zealand,
15 Dec. 1879; educ. Napier, Hawkes Bay; volunteered on the outbreak of
war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left
for Egypt, 16 Oct., and was killed in action during the landing at the
Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; _unm._
=HARKER, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4915), S.S.
104332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARLAND, REGINALD WICKHAM=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt.,
7th _s._ of the Rev. Albert Augustus Harland, Vicar of Harefield,
Uxbridge, by his wife, Louisa Ellen, dau. of Henry Wilson; _b._
Harefield Vicarage, co. Middlesex; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen,
Wellington College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. Hampshire Regt., 22 April, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 22 Dec.
1905, and Capt. 9 Aug. 1911; went to France, 20 Aug. 1914, and was
killed in action at Ploegsteert, 30 Oct. following; _unm._ Buried
in the churchyard there. A brother officer wrote: “It was a day of very
hard fighting, in spite of very heavy fire he continued to watch with
his field glasses the movements of the enemy in order to direct the
fire of his men, when a bullet struck him in the head.” Capt. Harland
won Lord Roberts’ Prize at Sandhurst as winner of the competition at
drill.
=HARLAND, WILLIAM JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., A. 4422, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARLAND, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6014), 226744,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARLEY, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 22631, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HARLING, WILLIAM JAMES=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 1057),
143377, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=HARLOW, THOMAS HENRY=, Acting Leading Stoker, 311600, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HARMAN, CHARLES EDWARD=, Brevet Colonel and Lieut.-Col.
Commanding 9th (Service) Battn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, _s._
of the late James Harman, of Great Marlow, co. Bucks, by his wife,
Anna Louisa, dau. of Capt. Smith, of Bath; _b._ London, 10 June,
1855; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted Sub-Lieut. 82nd Foot,
21 Sept. 1874; transferred to 89th Foot (2nd Royal Irish Rifles), 28
Aug. 1875: promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1875; Capt. Connaught Rangers,
30 March, 1881; Major, 21 Jan. 1890; Lieut.-Col. 8 Feb. 1898, and
Brevet Col. 8 Feb. 1902; was Adjutant 89th Foot, 30 Nov. 1878 to 29
March, 1881, and of the 3rd Battn., 16 Sept. 1882, to 15 Sept. 1887:
was sometime second in command of the 1st Connaught Rangers, and from
1898 to 1902 was in command of the 2nd Battn. in India, where he was
for a short time A.A.G. in the Bombay Command, and in Sept. 1902,
was appointed Acting Brigadier-General, Southern Command, India; was
on Extra Regimental Employment, 27 Nov. 1902 to 13 Aug. 1904, when
he retired. On the outbreak of the European War he at once offered
his services, and on 7 Sept. 1915, was given the command of the 9th
(Service) Battn. of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and died at Buttevant,
Ireland, 5 Jan. 1915, while on service with his regt. He _m._ at
St. James, Dublin, 2 Aug. 1883, Edith Jane Gertrude, only dau. of the
late George Edward Newland, Commandant and Inspector-General, R.T.C.,
and had two children: Henry Newland Harman, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., now
(1916) on active service in France, _b._ 9 Jan. 1886, _m._
15 Jan. 1914, Sidney Georgina, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. James Lowry
Cole Acton, and has two children: Ruth Edith, _b._ South Africa,
14 Nov. 1914, and Cicely Elizabeth, _b._ 6 March, 1916; and Lilian
Ethel, _m._ 22 Sept. 1904, Col. E. P. Smith, R.F.A., who was
killed in action at the Dardanelles.
[Illustration: =Charles Edward Harman.=]
=HARMAN, GEORGE MALCOLM NIXON, D.S.O.=, Major, 2nd Battn. The
Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._ of the late Lieut.-General Sir George
Harman, K.C.B., by his wife, Helen Margaret, dau. of John Tonge, of
Starboro’ Castle, Edenbridge; _b._ London, 14 Nov. 1872; educ.
Marlborough and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov.
1891; promoted Lieut. 11 Oct. 1893, Captain, 1 Jan. 1898, and Major,
26 June, 1907; was employed in Uganda with the King’s African Rifles,
19 Jan. 1900, to 9 Nov. 1904, being engaged on the Anglo-German
Boundary Commission, west of Victoria Nyanza, 8 July, 1902, to 9 Nov.
1904; took part in the Expedition under Col. Delm-Radcliffe into the
Lango country, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 12
Sept. 1902], and awarded the medal with clasp, and the D.S.O., for
exceptional services both military and political. On returning home
in 1905 he was posted to the 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Chatham, and
later joined the 2nd Battn. in India. On the outbreak of war he came
home with his Battn., went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, and was killed
in action at Laventie, 27 Nov. following, by a shell; buried in the
cemetery there. He _m._ at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 21 Oct.
1913, May, eldest dau. of Evan Davies Jones, of 6, Addison Road, W.,
and Pentower, Fishguard, co. Pembroke; _s.p._
[Illustration: =George M. N. Harman.=]
=HARMAN, HERBERT REGINALD=, Private, No. 669, 9th Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, only child of the late Herbert James Harman,
of Windsor, by his wife, (--), dau. of (--) Butler; _b._ Windsor,
co. Berks, 17 Dec. 1882; educ. St. Stephen’s, Clewer, Windsor; was a
Private in the old Volunteer Battn. (The Buffs), East Kent Regt., being
for three or four years battn. shot, previous to his departure for
Australia. There he was a motor mechanic at Lismore, N.S.W., but on the
outbreak of war he enlisted and left with the first contingent of the
Commonwealth Expeditionary Force for the Dardanelles. He died there on
the S.S. Ionian, 6 May, 1915, from wounds received in action, and was
buried at sea. A comrade stated: “I saw him at Gaba Tepe, at 2 o’clock,
in the thick of the fight, doing his duty manfully.” Private Harman
_m._ at Holy Trinity Church, April, 1908, Susanna Elizabeth (16,
Albany Place, Cowgate Hill, Dover), sister of Private H. C. Hart, who
died of wounds, 17 Jan. 1916 (see his notice), and dau. of John William
Hart, Master Mariner, and had one son: John Herbert Granville, buried 4
April, 1909. His brother-in-law, Private H. C. Hart, of The Buffs, was
killed in the Persian Gulf (see notice).
[Illustration: =Herbert Reginald Harman.=]
=HARMAN, JOHN BOWER=, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., only _s._ of the
late Lieut.-Col. James Frederick Harman, R.A., by his wife, Ellen
S. (22, Egerton Terrace, S.W.), dau. of late James Norris of Castle
Hill, Bletchingley; _b._ Blackheath, 24 April, 1893; educ. St.
Christopher’s, Eastbourne; Charterhouse, and the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, where he was placed 2nd for riding and obtained
the Benson Memorial Prize and Cup; gazetted to the R.F.A., 19 July,
1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 15 Aug. 1914, and
was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. following;
_unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s
Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for “gallant and distinguished service in
the Field.” He was devoted to hunting. While stationed at Bulford, the
winter before the war, he obtained his Flying Certificate. He wished to
join the Flying Corps, but was not allowed to leave his Battery (29th)
as he had so little service.
=STAFFORD-KING-HARMAN, EDWARD CHARLES=, Capt., Irish Guards,
eldest _s._ of Sir Thomas Stafford, of Rockingham, co. Roscommon,
1st Bart., C.B., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Francis Agnes, only surv.
child of the late Col. the Right Hon. Edward Robert King-Harman, of
Rockingham, P.C., M.P.; _b._ Belfast, 13 April, 1891; educ. Eton
and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Irish Guards, 9 Sept. 1911, and promoted
Lieut. 11 June, 1912, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; went to France, 20 Sept.
1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, 6 Nov. following.
“He came to Mr. Vaughan’s house in 1904. Even as a Lower Boy he had a
quiet dignity, which made him as much respected as he was liked, and
this was always a characteristic which gave him a certain distinction
wherever he went. Though he was much hampered by ill-health, he gained
the House Colours, and many will remember his dashing game. In 1910, he
was in the Shooting VIII, and a Colour-Sergt., and brought the Section
Cup to his House, in the same year winning the Scott Cup and Bucks
County Cup. No boy had ever a higher standard of conduct; devoted to
all manly sport (he kept a pack of harriers in Ireland after he left
Eton), and full of Irish humour, he had at the same time the refinement
of mind of a saint, though few knew the thoughts which underlay his
life. Any boy who was weak found in him a protector, and his presence
was a silent rebuke to all meanness” (Eton College Chronicle). He
_m._ at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, 4 July, 1914,
Olive, only child of Capt. Henry Pakenham-Mahon, of Strokestown Park,
co. Roscommon, Ireland, and had a daughter, Lettice Mary, _b._ 10
April, 1915.
[Illustration: =Edward C. S.-K.-Harman.=]
=HARMER, HORACE WILLIAM=, E.A., 3rd Class, M. 3062, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARNEY, JOHN=, E.R.A. (R.N.R.), 1038 E.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARPER, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., P.O. 14886, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=HARPER, WILLIAM JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8353), S.S.
104430, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=HARPER, WILLIAM PERCIVAL JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class, 235017,
H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20
miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1915.
=HARRELL, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O., 287426, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARRIES, ERIC GUY=, Capt., Machine Gun Section, 1/7th Royal Welsh
Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Thomas Davies Harries, of Grosvenor
House, Aberystwyth, F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. (London), J.P., by his wife,
Annette, dau. of Lionel Benson, of Royal Avenue, Chelsea, and grandson
of David Harries, of Llaneast, near Fishguard; _b._ Grosvenor
House, Aberystwyth, co. Cardigan, 30 Oct. 1892; educ. Highgate School,
London, and on leaving there served his apprenticeship as an engineer
at the Cambrian Railway Works, Oswestry. He received a commission in
the 7th (Merioneth and Montgomery Territorial) Battn., Welsh Fusiliers,
1 April, 1913, was promoted Lieut. 2 Sept. 1914, and Capt. April, 1915;
went to the Dardanelles, July, 1915, was mortally wounded on Chocolate
Hill, Suvla Bay, 10 Aug. 1915, and died on board the Hospital Ship
Euripides, on the 17th; _unm._ Buried at Mudros East, Lemnos
(Grave 49). His commanding officer, Col. Jelf-Reveley, wrote: “I am
proud to say that your son’s behaviour on Aug. 10 under fire has been
most favourably reported on by several officers. He was perfectly cool,
and led his men like a veteran.”
[Illustration: =Eric Guy Harries.=]
=HARRINGTON, JOHN JOSEPH=, 1st Class Air Mechanic, No. 486, Royal
Flying Corps, _s._ of John Harrington, of Newport, co. Monmouth,
Master Plasterer; _b._ there 24 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Mary’s Roman
Catholic School in that town; joined the Royal Monmouth Engineers in
1905 as a Sapper, obtained his discharge in 1908; for some time drove
the mail between Tredegar and Newport, and was afterwards employed at
the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company’s works at Filton, Bristol.
He joined the Royal Flying Corps, 20 Nov. 1912, and was killed in
action in the fighting around Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914; _unm._ He was
buried at a farm 1,000 yards north of Zillebeke, south-east of Ypres.
[Illustration: =John Joseph Harrington.=]
=HARRIS, ALFRED HENRY=, Petty Officer, Tel., 239886, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARRIS, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11622, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of James Harris, of Chaffecombe, Chard, Somerset,
Farm Bailiff, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Keener; _b._
Ottery St. Mary, co. Devon, 26 Dec. 1889; educ. there; was a Mason’s
Labourer; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; went to France 21 Dec. 1914, and was
killed in action at Vermelles, Belgium, 4 Oct. 1915; _unm._
=HARRIS, BERTRAM PAGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 263, Machine-gun Section,
13th Battn., 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only
_s._ of Page Harris, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, by his wife,
Sarah Lucy; _b._ St. Leonard-on-Sea, 12 Nov. 1887; educ. National
School there; went to Australia in 1912, and was up country when war
was declared, and at once went to Sydney to join the Commonwealth E.F.
then forming; left for Egypt in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing
at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Gaba
Tepe four days later, 29 April; _unm._ His officer wrote that he
was universally liked and respected by his section; as a soldier, he
considered he had no better man, adding “he was the senior number in
his gun crew and was the first man into their gun position after the
long and distressing struggle from the shore forward, and he was our
first casualty.”
=HARRIS, CHARLES EDWIN=, Acting Chief Yeoman Signalman, 186240
Devon, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARRIS, ERNEST GEORGE=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271658, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARRIS, FREDERICK ALBERT=, Petty Officer (T.), 173534, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=HARRIS, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3716), 185125, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARRIS, HENRY JOHN=, Petty Officer, 155005, H.M.S. Cressy; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARRIS, JOHN AUGUSTE EMILE=, L.-Corpl., No. 2251, 2nd Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, and 2nd Lieut. Sydney Senior Cadets, eldest
_s._ of Alfred Thomas Harris, of 165, Denison Street, Waverley,
Sydney, New South Wales, Pharmacist, by his wife, Camille Marie, dau.
of Henri Prudhomme, Lieut. French Navy; _b._ Sydney, 6 Oct. 1899;
educ. at the Cleveland Street High School there. On 31 Jan. 1913, in
his 14th year, he was registered among the senior cadets, Sydney, in
compliance with the Commonwealth Defence Act; was promoted Corpl. 1
May, 1914; passed and promoted to Colour-Sergt. 17 June, 1914, and
passed for 2nd Lieut. 28 March, 1915, his appointment being confirmed a
few days before he enlisted, so that he was the youngest commissioned
officer in the Australian Commonwealth Forces. He enlisted on 2 June,
1915, and as he had passed in Musketry as “Marksman” in the cadets,
his former training held good, and he only remained a few days in the
Liverpool Training Camp, and left Sydney on 16 June, as L.-Corpl.
of the sixth reinforcements for the 2nd Battn. of the 1st Infantry
Brigade. He was about a fortnight in Cairo and was hurried off to
Gallipoli, arriving at Anzac and joining his battn. on 5 Aug. Next day,
6 Aug., he took part in the big charge on, and capture of, the Turkish
trenches at Lonesome Pine, and was officially reported killed in action
on 8 Aug. The officer in charge of the sixth reinforcements, Lieut. La
Touche, wrote to his mother from the transport in the Mediterranean:
“Your son, L.-Corpl. Harris, is with me, and I shall try to keep him
with me throughout the campaign. He is a gallant little fellow, with
the greatest of military virtues--faithfulness--and as such is of very
great assistance to his officers. If he had only a few years more
to his credit, he would make a fine officer. Meanwhile he is doing
his duty without a thought of self, and will serve his country as an
Australian gentleman should. I will try to keep him with me, and to
see after him so far as I can. Of course, my power is very limited,
but we are both in God’s hands, and He doeth all things well.” [Lieut.
La Touche was killed on 6 Aug.] Lieut.-Col. Cass, commanding the 2nd
Battn., wrote: “But you may rest assured that he took part in one of
the outstanding features of the Gallipoli fighting, and did his duty
well.” Like many other Australian boys, he was full of enthusiasm in
military matters, but his career was an all too brief one. He was only
15 years and 10 months old when he died. “Purpureus cum flos succisus
aratro.”
[Illustration: =John Auguste E. Harris.=]
=HARRIS, JOHN FREDERICK=, Private, No. 14902, 1st Battn. The Welsh
Regiment, _s._ of the late John Henry Harris, Shoemaker, by his
wife, Agnes Florence, dau. of Gabriel Evans; _b._ Neath, 11 March,
1894; educ. Council Schools there; was a steelworker; enlisted at the
outbreak of war, 29 Aug 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915, and died at
Zillebeke, 8 May, 1915, of wounds received in action there on the 3rd;
_unm._ Buried Hazebrouck Cemetery. He was a member of St. Thomas’
Choir, Neath.
=HARRIS, JOSEPH WALTER=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Lincolnshire
Regt. (attd. 1st Battn.), _s._ of George Harris, of Swallowbeck,
Lincoln, Secretary of the Lincoln Co-operative Society, by his wife,
Sarah Ann, dau. of John Thacker; _b._ Lincoln, 19 June, 1889;
educ. Lincoln Grammar School, at which he won a scholarship from an
elementary school, and Nottingham University where he was a member
of the O.T.C.; graduated B.Sc. with First-class Honours, London
University, 13 Dec. 1911; devoted himself to chemical research and
became F.I.C. 15 May, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Lincolns, from
the Nottingham University, O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 30
Jan. 1915; went to France 2 Dec. 1914, was attached to the 1st Battn.
of his Regt.; and was killed in action at Hooge, 3 June, 1915. He
_m._ at Grimsby, 3 Oct. 1914, Mabel (Swallowbech, Lincoln), dau.
of Joseph Laughton, of North Somercotes; _s.p._
=HARRIS, LANCELOT GRAHAM=, Private, No. 1112, 1st Battn.
Honourable Artillery Company, only _s._ of Robert Jefferson
Harris, of 21, Alexandra Road, Finsbury Park, London, formerly of
Mysore, India, Coffee Planter, by his wife, Maud Ellen, dau. of Orlando
Edmonds, of Northfields House, Stamford, Lincolnshire, J.P.; _b._
Lymington, co. Hants, 17 May, 1894; educ. Denstone College (1908–13,
6th Form Prefect; Sergt. in O.T.C.; shot at Bisley for school); Berlin
(1913); and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1913–14, to which he
obtained an open Exhibition); joined the Honourable Artillery Company
two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914, left for St.
Nazaire, 19 Sept.; was in the trenches from October until 27 April,
1915, when he was mortally wounded at Dickebusch by shell fire, having
both legs broken, and died there the following day, and was buried
at La Clyte Cemetery; _unm._ His Platoon Commander wrote: “His
bravery was absolutely magnificent, he was perfectly splendid all the
way through--thoroughly keen, and willing to do anything. My platoon
has lost a good soldier and a favourite companion”; and a comrade,
writing to his own father, said: “I am very sorry to say they killed
a young fellow called Harris, one of the old stagers of St. Nazaire.
He Was frail looking and slim, and quite a boy, with an almost girlish
face, but had the spirit of a bulldog and the soul of a saint. The grit
with which he stuck the hardships of the winter, and his continual
cheeriness and helping of others, when he was almost done up himself,
used to make me proud to be in the regt. with him. When a spirit of
such temper as that of young Harris is lost from among us, I tell you
it leaves a very big gap indeed.”
[Illustration: =Lancelot Graham Harris.=]
=HARRIS, NORMAN=, Midshipman, Royal Navy; only surviving _s._
of William Birkbeck Harris, of the White House, Hayes, Kent, by his
wife, Kathleen Marion, dau. of Edward Carey, of Shortlands, Kent;
_b._ Hayes, 7 Nov. 1898; educ. Parkfield, Hayward’s Heath, and at
Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; joined H.M.S. Bulwark, 4
Aug. 1914, and was lost when that vessel was blown up off Sheerness, 26
Nov. 1914. He was the Senior Midshipman.
[Illustration: =Norman Harris.=]
=HARRIS, NORMAN ELTON=, Corpl., No. 603, 4th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, only _s._ of George Copley Harris, of Wallandra,
Parkes, N.S.W., Landowner [4th _s._ of the late William Harris,
co. Limerick], by his wife, Kathleen Spring, dau. of (--) Spring-Rice;
_b._ Bathurst. N.S.W., 2 Dec. 1887; educ. Sydney. After the
outbreak of war enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 1
Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 19 June,
1915; _unm._ Writing to his father, Major Storey said that he had
distinguished himself twice previously and had acted with great bravery.
[Illustration: =Norman Elton Harris.=]
=HARRIS, WALDRON=, E.R.A. 1st Class, 269689, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARRIS, WILLIAM=, S.S.A., M. 1034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HARRIS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10031),
S.S. 107618, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea 22 Sept.
1914.
=HARRIS, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3468), 187321,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HARRIS, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, No. 11862, 2nd Battn.
Coldstream Guards; only _s._ of George Harris, of South Newington,
Banbury, Oxon, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Nash; _b._ South
Newington, aforesaid, 18 Jan. 1887; educ. there; was a Farm Labourer;
enlisted 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 Feb. 1915, and was killed in
action at Givenchy, 30 March, 1915; _unm._
=CARR-HARRIS, ERNEST DALE=, Capt., R.E., eldest _s._ of
Robert Carr-Harris, of The Vale, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada,
Professor of Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, by his
wife, Ellen Jane, dau. of Robert Wiley Fitton, of co. Cork; _b._
Thurso, P. Quebec, Canada, 14 Feb. 1878; educ. at Queens University,
and after four years’ course at the Royal Military College, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada, graduated in 1899 at the Head of his Class, taking
Honours in 13 subjects out of the 15 subjects of the course of the
College, and received the Gold Medal of the year for subjects of
instruction, and the Sword of Honour for distinction in Conduct and
Discipline; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 19 June, 1899, and promoted Lieut.
29 Dec. 1901, and Capt. 19 June, 1908; served in China, 1900, during
the Boxer rebellion (medal with clasp), and was detailed to construct
the defences of the British Legation Grounds at Pekin; was then for
two years Senior R.E. Officer at Singapore, and was afterwards engaged
in the construction of the Military transfrontier road across the
zone of the independent tribes between India and Afghanistan, on the
completion of which he was nominated to the India Staff College at
Quetta by the Gen. Commander-in-Chief. He completed his course in Sept.
1914, and was immediately detailed for service in East Africa, and was
killed in action there, 3 Nov. of 1914; _unm._ Capt. Robertson
wrote: “Capt. Carr-Harris was the first to land to examine Culvertsand
Mines. It happened in the dark--he was surrounded in the Bush and put
up a splendid fight. He seized a rifle and with a few others, whom
he had collected on the spot, made a counter-attack and drove them
back. He was found shot through the head. Our casualties were bigger
in proportion than those suffered in European fights.” His two younger
brothers are now (1916) taking their course at the Royal Military
College of Canada. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
[Illustration: =Ernest Dale Carr-Harris.=]
=WILLIS-HARRIS, RALPH CLAUDIAN=, Private, No. 65418, 24th Battn.
(Victoria Rifles), 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force,
_s._ of the late William Willis-Harris, of Midhurst, by his wife,
Ada Sarah (now wife of Thomas Charles Popplewell, of Easebourne,
Midhurst, Sussex), dau. of Ezra Battell; _b._ Pulborough, co.
Sussex, 7 Aug. 1892; educ. Midhurst Grammar School; was an employee
of the Bank of British North America, first in London and then at
Montreal; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian
E.F. in Oct. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent, 20 May, 1915;
went to France in Sept., and died 9 Nov. 1915, of wounds received
the previous day, while assisting to carry a wounded comrade to the
dressing station; _unm._ Buried in the Military Cemetery at
Bailleul. Major R. O. Alexander wrote: “Your son was a very gallant
soldier and a very fine man. I feel as if I had lost a great friend,
and undoubtedly one of the most valuable men in my Company”; and Lieut.
A. L. S. Mills wrote: “In case you have not heard the details, he was
helping to carry one of his comrades (Private Diver), who afterwards
died, to the dressing station, when they were seen by the enemy, who
opened fire on them with machine-guns. Your son was hit, and had
himself to be carried to the dressing station with Diver. He bore any
pain he may have suffered with such wonderful nerve that everyone
expected him to be up and about again in a very short time. Your son
was one of my finest men, and ever since the sad news of his death
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