Edward Harrison
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Edward Harrison was born in 1890 in Derbyshire, he was the husband of Mary Louise Coates whom he married in 1914 at Nottingham and the father Edward Harrison they lived at 14 Rosslyn Street Manning Street St Ann's Nottingham.
His WW1 Medal Roll gives two regimental numbers 1633 and 265132 and also shows he first entered a theatre of war in France on 25th February 1915 he served with the 1/7t battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment.
He went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 20, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 2, Row D, Grave 29.
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Edward Harrison
Photograph of E Harrison's headstone in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery Foncquevillers.
Courtesy of Dennis Weston