Name
Harold John Barber Bly
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
769554
London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) *1
28th (County of London)(Reserve) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRENTWOOD (LONDON ROAD) CEMETERY
C. 133.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance
Pre War
Son of Edward Abel and Annie (nee FORSTER) BLY of Ardrishaig, Argyll.
His parents married 2 December 1899 at Christ Church, Macclesfield, Ches. They probably died in Scotland.
Harold was born 2 September 1900 in Wealdstone, Middx, and baptised 1 April 1902 at Christ Church, Macclesfield. He attended Watford Grammar School from September 1909 to July 1918.
He enlisted 16 October 1918: a scholar aged 18, 5’8½” tall, C of E; next-of-kin his father of Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 months he lived in Willesden, Middx, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 10, he lived in Watford, with his parents and no siblings.
Wartime Service
He was a Cadet in the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., and died of pneumonia following influenza at the Military Hospital, Warley.
He appears to have no medals, nor an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War.
Additional Information
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads: “BLY, HAROLD JOHN BARBER. School period: September, 1909, to July, 1918. Cadet, Artists' Rifles O.T.C. Joined up 15th October, 1918. Died of pneumonia following influenza, 13th November, 1918."
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (University and Public Schools).
