BORN LITTLE WEIGHTON, YORKS, 1894. SON OF MARSH AND RACHEL HARRISON, OF ROWLEY, LITTLE WEIGHTON. SON OF A RAILWAY LABOURER.
A FARM SERVANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE MARRIED, MINNIE HOPE, IN SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1916. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/05/1917, AGED 23. BURIED IN FRANCE.
HE LEFT WIDOW MINNIE, & DAUGHTER, NELLY, BORN IN 1916. MINNE REMARRIED AND BECAME, MINNE GALE TATE.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S BRIDLINGTON STREET MEMORIAL.
HE IS ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE ROWLEY WW1 MEMORIAL, LITTLE WEIGHTON, WHICH RECORDS 15 NAMES.
First name:
HERBERT
Military Number:
242186
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/05/1917
Place died:
Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
23
