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Edward Harrison

Service number 265132
Military unit 1/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Address Nottingham
Date of birth
Date of death 01 Jul 1916 (20 years old)
Place of birth Derby
Employment, education or hobbies Unknown
Family history

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.

Military history

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.

Extra information

additional research and information Peter Gillings

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