Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Harris. After enlisting, he embarked for France on the 10th September 1915, and at once went into the line at the Battle of Loos which had opened on the 25th September. They had been in a position in the road lining Chalk Pit Wood which had been under constant, heavy and deadly fire, an officer who witnessed the scene described the shells as literally ploughing the men from their shallow trenches, as potatoes are turned from a furrow. After this incident he was reported missing presumed killed.