Name
Harold William Philpott
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2226 (*1)
London Regiment
7th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9D, 9C, 13C and 12C
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Ayot St Peter Memorial, St Peter's Church Roll of Honour, Ayot St Peter, East Barnet Valley Memorial, New Barnet, St James Church Memorial, New Barnet, Margaret Road School Memorial, Chipping Barnet
Pre War
Harold William Philpott was born in 1891 in New Barnet, Herts, the eldest son of William and Louisa Philpott.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 3 Approach Road, New Barnet, where his father was a gas stoker. They remained in New Barnet in 1911 but had moved to Clifton Cottage, Victoria Road and Harold was working as Railway Porter for Great Northern Railway.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Sun Street, Finsbury Square in the City of London, the headquarters of the 3rd City of London Volunteer Rifle Corps, the origin of the 7th Battalion, London Regiment. His service number suggests he joined the Volunteer Rifle Corps in late 1912.
He arrived in France on 18 August 1915 and was killed in action during the Battle of Flers-Courcellette at High Wood, but his body was not recovered for burial, or not identified. His name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £7 and pay owing of £2 3s 5d, as well as a pension of 5 shillings a week from 11 December 1917. His father was born in Codicote, Herts. He was cousin to Randall Harwood also named on the Ayot St Peter Memorial. *1 Given as 222 on the CWGC database.
*1 Probably more correctly (City of London) London
Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.ayotstpeter.com
