Name
Tom Harrison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/10/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
51604
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAMBURG CEMETERY
V. H. 4.
Germany
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial
Pre War
Tom was born at Webheath in ·Worcestershire in 1889. The son of George and Emma Harrison. In 1901 he was living at home with parents, his father is a needle maker working at home. By 1911 he was working as a footman for Lady Bath at 15 Manchester Square London, one of ten servants. His place of residence in army records was given as Redditch, but that may have been his parents address. Presumably he had come to this Hertfordshire for work after 1911, possibly at Poles or one of the large houses in the area. Tom enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 12321, Bedfordshire Regiment where he was promoted to L/Cpl and then later transferred into the Lincolnshire, where he was presumably captured and died as a POW.
Additional Information
After his death he was recorded as the son of George and Emma Harrison, of Webheath, Redditch, Worcs,
Acknowledgments
Pat Bird, Jonty Wild
