Private George Joseph Harrison, 26538

  • Batt - 4
  • Unit - Bedfordshire Regiment
  • Section -
  • Date of Birth -
  • Died - 24/03/1918
  • Age -

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
The War Diary for the 24th March 1918 records. COURCELETTE. Overnight the Battn. having withdrawn to R.E. dump N. of YTRES, retired under heavy Machine Gun fire through BARAST to BOULENCOURT where they remained for 2 hours and after firing all but withdrew as a rearguard, provided by “A” Company to BAZENTIN-LE-PETIT and then to COURCELETTE, where the Battn. stopped overnight. Lt. GIRLING wounded, 2nd Lt. COWELL missing, Captain NIXON, 2nd Lt’s. VINCENT and GREEN missing.

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
  • Burial Place - Vii E 5, Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Bedfordshire Regiment
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Burial Commemoration - Adanac Mil. Cem., Miraumont - Pys, France
  • Born - Belgrave, Leicester
  • Enlisted - Northampton
  • Place of Residence - Rushden, Northamptonshire, England
  • Memorial - NARBOROUGH CEM. MEM., LEICS
  • Memorial - ALL SAINT'S CHURCH, NARBOROUGH, LEICS

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