Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Daniels, and excavator, born in the 1st quarter of 1857 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire and his wife Ann (Annie) Daniel (nee Heward (Heyward) (Howard) married on the 9th November 1884 in Holy Trinity Church, Hinckley), a hosiery trade seamer, born in the 1st quarter of 1857 in Hinckley, Leicestershire. Harry was born in the 4th quarter of 1891 in Hinckley, his siblings were, George (Dick), an excavator, was born on the 27th November 1887 and was baptised on the 18th November 1889 in Holy Trinity Church, Hinckley, Tom, an excavator, born on the 12th March 1889, Alice, a boot trade machinist, born on the 19th April 1890, Sam, a schoolboy, born on the 6th March 1899, Annie, a boot trade machinist, born in the 2nd quarter of 1895 and Ada, a hosiery trade worker, born in the 4th quarter of 1896, all his siblings were born in Hinckley, in April 1911 the family home was at 77, Stockwell Head, Hinckley. Harry also had the following older siblings, a half blood sibling, Sarah Ann Heywood, born in the 4th quarter of 1877 in Hinckley, and siblings, Elizabeth born in the 2nd quarter of 1885 and William, born in the 3rd quarter of 1886, both siblings were born in Hinckley. In the 4th quarter of 1915 Harry married Eveline Jeffs in the Hinckley, Leicestershire district, Eveline was born in the 4th quarter of 1896 in Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire. Harry’s father was born and registered at birth with the surname spelling of Daniels, this was the spelling used on the 1891 census return, however the “s” was dropped on all of the officially recorded birth registrations for the children of the marriage. His older brother George also fell in action on the 10th March 1917.
Harry’s Army enlistment documents do not survive, all that is known of his military service is that he enlisted into the Leicestershire Regiment, being allotted the service number 22057, and was posted as a Private to the 7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and it was with this unit that he first entered the theatre of war in France on a date unknown. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
The War Diary records: 17-25 Sept-16 - MONTAUBAN. The Battalion remained in bivouacs and was employed in finding working parties in connection with preparing for the attack on GUEDECOURT. The casualties were all caused by shell fire, the work consisting of digging trenches and repairing roads and much of this was necessarily carried out under shell fire. The weather during this period was uncertain and the state of the ground led to a postponement of objectives.