Name
Harold Izzard Warner
20th March 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/03/1919
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M/320272
Royal Army Service Corps
1019th Motor Transport Company.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY
B10.9.661F.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Walkern War Memorial
Pre War
Harold was the son of James & Emily Warner of Walkern and the husband of Elizabeth Warner (nee Hudson) of North Hykeham, Lincolnshire.
In the 1901 Census his family lived in Walkern at 34 Walkern St. In 1911 aged 17 he is registered living at "Ivanhoe" in Walkern working as a 'Plumber and Painter' alongside his five siblings.
Wartime Service
In July 1917 he married Elizabeth Hudson from Fulstow, Lincolnshire.
The Company, initially 6 Officers and 80 Other Ranks, had been posted to serve in Iraq and left Southampton on the 7th January 1918. The journey took them by train through France and Italy and then by ship, the SS Karoa, to Alexandria, which they reached on the 29th January. The following day they moved to Port Suez where they boarded the SS Karagola bound for Karachi. On arriving in Karachi they joined the SS Aronda to their final destination, Basra.
In Iraq the company swelled to 6 Officers, 143 British Other Ranks, 75 Indian Other Ranks and 11 Camp Followers. The Company vehicles were 130 Ford vans, 2 ambulances, 20 Talbots and 5 Star Lorries. They served both the military and political services in the area through to 1920.
Harold Warner was buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery and Crematorium in Birmingham.
Additional Information
Acknowledgments
Harry Hughes
Paul Johnson
