Name
(Louis) Frank Harrowell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/05/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal/Private
55366
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
55th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 136.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Berkhamsted Town Memorial,
St. Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Son of William and Lizzie (nee DAVIS) HARROWELL; husband of Ada Jane (nee SUMMERS) HARROWELL of Berkhamsted, Herts.
His parents married 21 March 1868 at St Mary’s, Northchurch, Herts. Lizzie died 1926 aged 79; William died 1932 aged 87; both in the Berkhamsted district.
Louis Frank HARROWELL was born 1884 in Berkhamsted, and baptised 27 January 1884 at St Peter’s, Berkhamsted. The only marriage found is between Ada J SUMMERS and Frank LEWIS 1916 in the St Pancras, London, district; they had four children. Ada HARROWELL never remarried, and died 1960 in the Berkhamsted district aged 77.
On the 1891 Census, Frank HARROWELL a scholar aged 7, lived in Berkhamsted, with his parents and nine siblings. On the 1901 Census, Louis HARROWELL a solicitor’s clerk aged 17, lived in Watford. On the 1911 Census, Frank LEWIS a traveller to a builder’s merchant aged 27, lived in Hanwell, Middx, with his wife and two children.
Wartime Service
He enlisted as Frank LEWIS in Ealing, Middx, and was formerly 42328 Royal Fusiliers. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about Frank HARROWELL in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 25 May 1918.
Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
SJonty Wild, ue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)