Name
Harry Eaglestone
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/04/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12933
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XX11. G. 1A
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
North Mymms War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, North Mymms,
North Mymms Memorial Hall Memorial, Welham Green
Pre War
From the 1911 Census we find Harry living at 4 Maypole Cottages Water End with Grandfather Thomas a journeyman blacksmith, Grandmother Eliza and Aunt Eliza aged 39 single a general servant, his mother Caroline Eaglestone married a William Brace in 1903 and lived in Barnet she was widowed in the same month as Harry was killed, her Father Thomas also dying that same month.
Wartime Service
From the Parish Magazine we find Harry enlisted August 1914 and went to France September 1915.
He received a fatal wound to his head on the possibly on the 12th April 1917 whilst in action and died on the 13th in the Ambulance train taking him to base12, The War Diary for the 12th States, Wanquetin, Marched to wet trenches in Tilloy. Several men suffered from exposure. After daylight marched to Arras, thence by bus to Wanquetin.
It looks like Harry was just a man killed, from the 10th April, the Battalion had been fighting in the Battle for Arras.
Acknowledgments
www.bedfordregiment.org.uk, Mike Allen
