Name
Harold Canvin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
74871
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Harold Canvin was one of five brothers from Grove Wharf that served during the Great War. He was born in the winter of 1898 at Kensal Green. He was one of twelve children born to Albert and Clara Canvin. In the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at Grove Wharf. In 1901 Albert was employed as a Miller’s Carter, and in the 1911 Census he worked as a General Labourer.
Harold, together with his four brothers, were not registered in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour until September 1916, however it was likely that more than one of them would have been engaged in War Service from much earlier in the War. For some unknown reason Harold was not recorded in the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour in January 1917, and for the following months. However he was recorded in the Roll of Honour from January 1918 through to the end of the War.
He was not recorded in the Absent Voters Records, but his Medal Roll recorded that he was still serving as a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery on 11th May 1920.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
