No.49049, Sergeant, William Elijah HARWOOD M.M.
Aged 27
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Born 1890 in Ashton under Lyne (2nd qtr 8d:559) son of Henry and Emma Elizabeth HARWOOD (née PRYKE)
1891 census...Aged 11 months, he was at Ashton under Lyne Barracks, Hartshead, Cheshire with his father Henry HARWOOD [27] Colour Sergeant Infantry born Colchester; his mother Emma Elizabeth [27] born Colchester; brothers Percy Colley [4] born Shornecliffe, Kent and Henry Stevenson [2] born Aldershot. 1901 census...Aged 10, he was at 17 Shrubland Road, Colchester with his parents (father now tailor's presser); brothers Percy (clerk in boot factory), Henry and John [9 months] born Colchester; sisters Emma [7] and Ada [4] both born Aldershot and Elizabeth [3] born Colchester His father died, aged 46, in Bury St.Edmunds in 1909. 1911 census...Not found in this census, but he was in the Army. At 44 West Road, Bury St.Edmunds were his widowed mother (milliner); sisters Emma Elizabeth (dress maker), Ada Sarah, Ivy Elizabeth Pryke and May Flora [8]; brothers John Cracknell [10] and Frederick Cecil [6]. May and Frederick born Bury St.Edmunds |
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He enlisted in Colchester.
Unfortunately CWGC have him in 67th Brigade (war diary not found) and his CO's letter says 169th Brigade and August 31st 1916 is not in their war diary. As such it would impossible at present to pin down where he was killed. There is however a CWGC concentration card which details exactly where he was first buried, before re-interment in Quarry Cemetery in 1919
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