Name
Harry Muir
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/04/1916
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
East Yorkshire Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
I. H. 62.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 17 Apr 1884 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland son of Charles William and Sarah Muir. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1894-99, he became Head Shipping Clerk in Newcastle.
Wartime Service
Enlisted as a Sergeant in the Tyneside Commercial Battalion in 1914 and obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant, East Yorkshire Regiment. He entered the war in Egypt on 26 Dec 1915 and was then transferred to France and was killed in action four weeks later during night operations at Colincamps.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
