Name
James Harrold
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/11/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20018
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
20th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LESSINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
W. of the mortuary or on the S. bdry. W. of gate.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
He was the husband of Mrs A.M. Harrold of 7, Providence Row, St. Andrew's Place, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He was born in Islington and resided there. He enlisted in Holloway in Middlesex and held Regimental Number G/20018 serving in the 20th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He died of influenza.
The 20th Battalion was in the vicinity of Warcoing on the 10th November 1918 having been there since the 20th October. The probability is that he had been captured and died of influenza whilst a prisoner of war, as none of the Middlesex Battalions were in the Lessines area during that period. The most likely date of his capture was the 28th September when the 20th Battalion lost a number of men in an attack in the Ypres area. He was buried in the Lessines Communal Cemetery, Hainaut in Belgium.
Additional Information
His name does not seem appear on any of the North Hertfordshire war memorials.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
