Name
Harold Bernard Meek
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
51231
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PROVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY
I.C.41
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Welwyn village memorials
Pre War
Harold Bernard Meek was born in 1899 in Willesden, Middlesex, eldest son of Bernard Meek and Pollie (nee Whitbread).
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 93 Monet Avenue, Willesden where his father was working in the timber trade. They had moved to 15 Litchfield Gardens, High Road, Willesden Green, Middlesex in 1911 and his father was then a timber merchant.
His father later lived in Oaklands, Welwyn, Herts and Kings Langley, Herts.
Wartime Service
Harold enlisted at Mill Hill, Middlesex and joined the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. He served in France and Flanders and was killed in action near Cambrai on 30 September 1918, aged 19.
He is buried in Proville British Cemetery, just south west of Cambrai, close to where 4th Beds were deployed at that time.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £7 4s 2d.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk.
