Name
Helen Charlotte Harrold
30 October 1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/10/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Worker
50021
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HEATH LANE) CEMETERY
YB. 46.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Pre War
Helen Charlotte Harrold was born in Jalundha, India in on 30 October 1890, the daughter of John and Laura Harrold, and was baptised on 17 November 1890 at Jullunder, Bengal, India. She attended Globe Road School (later renamed Pilgrim School), Tower Hamlets, from 29 June 1896, at which time her home address was given as 'Barracks'.
Her father was a Sergeant with the Rifle Brigade and on the 1901 Census, she was living at Parkhurst Barracks, Isle of Wight, with her mother and two sisters Florence and Laura. She had another sister, Lilian Maud who was born on 4 September 1896 but who died before she was a year old.
By 1911 she was living in at the home of William and Louisa Silcock at 10 Bath Road, Chiswick and working as a servant. Her parents were then living at 29 Stanley Road, East Sheen, Mortlake, Surrey.
Wartime Service
She enlisted as a worker for the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps and arrived, with others, at the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps at Berkhamsted to take over some of the administrative roles in the Headquarters. There was a serious outbreak of influenza and Helen, along with 13 male members of the Corps died.
She died on 29 October 1918 at the West Herts Hospital, Hemel Hempstead.
Additional Information
No credit was due to her effects. (Army Register of Soldiers' Effects)
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, greatwarforum,
