Name
Charles William Harrison
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/05/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2669
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
III. D. 79.
France
Headstone Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Charles William Harrison was born in Bermondsey, (Southwark) London in 1894 to William and Jane Harrison and baptised at St Stephen's, Walworth on 15 July 1894. His father was a farrier and they lived at 34 Marcia Road.
On the 1911 Census he was living at 133 South Street, Bishop's Stortford with his aunt and uncle, Joseph and Mary Dixon, and working as a Fur Blowing Machine Minder for a Hatter's Furrier.
Wartime Service
He joined 1st Bn, Hertfordshire Regiment and served in France from 6 November 1914.
He died of wounds at Bethune on 19 May 1915 at 23rd Field Ambulance, probably from wounds received the previous day at the Battle of Festubert.
Additional Information
His father William received a £3 war gratuity and pay owing of £7 17s 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
