BORN BRADFORD 1894. SON OF HARRY HARRISON (1868-1938) & EMMA WHITEHEAD (1869-1946), OF, 4, ORCHARD VIEW, NEWLAND AVENUE, 86, ETON STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL & 86, GOULTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A BOTTLE WASHER & MINER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, IN 1914. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 02//07/1916, AGED 21. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ETON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOSHUA HARRISON, 12TH EYR WAS KILLED AT SERRED ON 13/11/1916, AGED 22.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDWARD HARRISON 11/1345. Born in Bradford in 1894, Edward was the second of nine children to Harry and Emma Harrison of 86 Goulton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. After leaving school he worked as a Bottle Washer before becoming a Miner. He enlisted at City Hall on 28th December 1914 joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. Edward was wounded during the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916. The Pals were not in the front line being decimated by machine guns, but they were in Reserve, cramped into trenches awaiting the order to move up as a second or third wave. Packed into those trenches and shelled by German artillery there were bound to be casualties and Edward received a shrapnel wound to his abdomen and was evacuated by the field ambulance to the rear. He died of wounds on 2nd July 1916 and was buried at Couin British Cemetery; he was 22 years old. An interesting letter is filed in his Army records. Edward’s personal effects were forwarded to his family, but some were missing and his sister wrote to the army requesting they forward a “gold chain…as this is valued by his mother…(he wore it) around his neck with faith, hope and charity attached.” It could have been lost in the melee, or it could have been looted. There is no record of it being returned.
