BORN HART’POOL 1877. ELDEST SON OF JOHN & MARIANNE OUGHTRED, ‘RIVER VIEW’ HOUSE, HESSLE, & KETTLEBY THORPE, BRIGG, LINCS. HIS FATHER WASMANAGER, ON THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK.
HAROLD OUGHTRED RECEIVED AN MASTER’S DEGREE AT BOTH OXFORD & LONDON. HE WAS THE MANAGER OF THE LONDON STOCK BANK IN HULL. HE RESIDED AT DAVENPORT AVENUE, HESSLE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE ARTIST RIFLES. HIS TWO BROTHERS WERE ALSO COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. HAROLD WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 23RD APRIL 1917, AGED 39. HE IS BURIED AT WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH”.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 27TH APRIL 1917.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.
HIS BROTHER, LIEUTENANT, JOHN ALVIN OUGHTRED, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WON THE MILITARY CROSS, AT PASSCHENDALE RIDGE, IN OCTOBER 1917, AGED 23 HE HELD HIS POSITION FOR 48 HOURS, WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER AND UNDER HEAVY FIRE. (HDM 05/11/1917). HE MARRIED AT SWANLAND IN OCTOBER 1919 AND HIS WEEDING WAS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 24/10/1919.
