BORN SEVENOAKS, KENT 1898. SON OF JAMES HENRY & ELIZABETH CHATFIELD, OF CHIPSTEAD, SEVENOAKS, KENT. HE ENLISTED IN MAIDSTONE, KENT. SERVED AS PTE, 11/386, 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. LIVED AT 19 SELBY STREET, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE WAS CAPTURED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 21/03/1918. HE DIED NEXT DAY AS A PRISONER OF WAR, AGED 20. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/05/1918. MOURNED BY MOTHER, BROTHERS AND SISTER.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE POZIERES MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
First name:
HAROLD
Military Number:
10162
Rank:
Private
Date Died
22/03/1918
Place died:
POZIERES MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
20
