BORN HULL 1887. SON OF ROBERT HARRISON & ELIZABETH LYONS, OF 2, PROVIDENCE PLACE, CANNON STREET, HULL , 3, JOHN’S PLACE, DINSDALE SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL AND 18, MONTROSE AVENUE, GIBSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). SON OF AN OIL MILL LABOURER. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS, KILLED IN WW1.
HIS WIFE, BEATRICE FROGGETT (1891- 1957) & DAUGHTER, HARRIET (1914- 1994), LIVED AT 8, FRED’S TERRACE, ST PAUL STREET, HULL. HE HAD BEEN IN THE ARMY FOR TEN YEARS AND WAS THE PLATOON’S ACTING SERGEANT, “B” COMPANY, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 29. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 2ND SEPTEMBER 1915, AND THE 11TH SEPTEMBER 1915. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST VINCENT’S CHURCH MEMORIAL, QUEENS ROAD, HULL WITH HIS BROTHER IN LAW, GEORGE FROGGETT.
HE WAS ONE OF FIVE BROTHERS SERVING AND IS RECORDED ON THE MONTROSE AVENUE, GIBSON STREET ROLL OF OF HONOUR. (Hull Daily Mail 02 October 1916).
HE IS RECORDED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO WW1 MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 61663, 15TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 12/04/1918, AGED 18. HIS OTHER BROTHER, PRIVATE, ROBERT HARRISON, 8986, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED ON 01/07/1916, AGED 24.
