BORN DRIFFIELD 1887. SON OF DAVID EDWARD BOURNER (1854-1899) & MARY ANN ROBSON (1858-1940), OF 20 CHESTNUT AVENUE, PARK ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ALL FIVE SONS SERVED IN ARMY & THREE WERE KILLED.
HAROLD BOURNER WAS A BOOT MAKER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7 INCHES TALL, 143 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST.
HE MARRIED IN 1912. HUSBAND OF MARY HOFTON LOUGHTON. THEIR HOME WAS 9 ALBERT TERRACE, TERRY STREET, HULL. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER MILICENT BORN IN 1913. HE SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WAS KILLED BY A SNIPER BULLET, ON 19/07/1916, AGED 28. HE SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 1 YEAR AND 210 DAYS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE HAROLD BOURNER 12/1241. Born in Driffield in November 1887, Harold was the sixth of nine children to David and Mary Bourner of 20 Chestnut Grove, Park Road, Hull. A Bootmaker by trade, he married Mary Loughton at Stepney Chapel on 31st August 1912 and the couple lived at 9 Albert Terrace, Terry Street with their daughter Millicent. When war broke out he enlisted on 22nd December 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. Harold was killed in action on 19th July 1916 and buried in Rue-du-Bacquerot No.1 Military Cemetery; he was 28 years old. Three of his brothers also joined the fight for King and Country. Only one came home. George and Percy Bourner were killed fighting for the Cheshire Regiment and the 3rd Battalion EYR respectively. Their father had died in 1899, and Mary Bourner gave the country three of her sons. That is a lot to bear. The surviving son was David Bourner, who enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was promoted to Corporal and then Acting Sergeant. He served in France and the Balkans. Was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and then the Devonshire Regiment. He was wounded, and lived at 14 Florence Avenue, Queens Road, Hull. He would later visit Harold’s Grave after the war.
