Name
Ernest Godfrey Harvey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6145
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10-11
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Mrs. Man Ann Woolner, of 65, Sunny Side Rd., Hitchin, Herts. His home was at 67, Tilehouse St. Hitchin.
He was born in Newport in Essex, but resided and enlisted in Hitchin as a volunteer in August 1914.
Wartime Service
He was sent to France later in 1914, which suggest previous service or that he was in the Territorials. He was in the 2nd Battalion and was allocated the Regimental Number 4/6145. He served in the Retreat from Mons, at Ypres and at Hill 60 and was killed in action.
At the time of his death, the Battalion occupied trenches in the Indian Village sector to the east of Bethune and north east of Festubert. The ground was badly waterlogged and in the attacks, wounded men drowned in the mud and water. In a week's fighting in the trenches 50% of the Battalion were killed or wounded.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
