Private Harold Vincent, M/019020
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- Unit - Army Service Corps
- Section - Motor Transport
- Date of Birth - 26/9/1885
- Died - 22/04/1915
- Age - 29
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the husband of Mrs Ellen Vincent. Harold had been a chauffer before enlistment, he was killed in a motor accident at Devonport, in a letter to his widow Lieutenant Blake of the Land and Water Transport, Devonport wrote:- “it was one of those extraordinary accidents in which in most cases only slight injuries would have been sustained.” He was spoken of as a good soldier, a reliable driver, and one who never gave his officers any trouble, but always accepted any duties cheerfully and with a good heart. Prior to the war he had resided at Langham, Rutland.
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - Motor Accident
- Place of death - Devonport
- Burial Place - Grave Mil Con C 3630, Plymouth (weston Mill) Cemetery
- Birth Place - Skeffington
- Unit - Army Service Corps
- Cause of death - DIED
- Burial Commemoration - Weston Mill Cem., Plymouth, Devon, England
- Born - Skeffington, Leics
- Enlisted - November 1914 In London
- Place of Residence - 42 Lascott's Road, Bowes Park, Middlesex, England
- Memorial - BARLEYTHORPE & LANGHAM MEM., RUTLAND