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Surname: HARGRAVE
Forename(s): Harold
Place of Birth: Barnoldswick, Yorkshire
Service No: 4970
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/5th Battalion
Division: 55th (West Lancashire) Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1916-07-02
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. E. 1.
CWGC Cemetery: WAILLY ORCHARD CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Harold Hargrave was the son of Henry and Emily Hargrave, née Lane. Henry was born at Bondgate (in the parish of Ripon), Yorkshire and Emily at Ketton, Rutland. Harold was the cousin of Private William Ewart Lane (15418) (q.v.).
1901 Heysham, Lancashire Census: Byron Road - Harold Hargreaves, aged 6 years, born Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, son of Henry and Emily Hargeaves.
1911 Barnoldswick, Yorkshire Census: 20, Ash Grove Terrace - Harold Hargrave, aged 16 years, born Barnoldswick, son of Henry and Emily Hargrave.
Harold joined the Army in Liverpool along with his friend, Private William Stuart Rigby (4971) (q.v.).
The British Army Service Record for Harold Hargreaves [sic] exists but may be incomplete. (In these documents Harold and his mother signed their surname as Hargrave).
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Hargrave, 4970, L'Pool R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harold Hargrave, 4970, 5th K.L.R.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harold Hargreaves [sic], 4970, 1/5th Batt Liverpool Reg. Date and Place of Death: 2.7.16 France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother and sole legatee - Emily Hargraves [sic]. £5 15s. 0d.
A short biography of Harold is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
HARGREAVES, Rifleman Harold, aged 21 years, K.L. Regt., son of Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Hargreaves, 5, Denton Street, [Barnoldswick], killed in action in France, July 2, 1916.
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Private Harold HARGRAVE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 55th (West Lancashire) Division
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14 July 1916
HARGREAVES – July 2, killed in action in France, Rifleman Harold Hargreaves, of the 1/5th King’s Liverpool Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hargreaves, 5, Wenton Street, Barnoldswick, aged 21 years.
08 September 1916
BARNOLDSWICK CASUALTIES
Mr. J. J. Rigby, 40, Gisburn Road, received a War Office intimation last week-end that his son, Rifleman Wm. Stewart Rigby, King's Liverpool Regiment, had been killed in action on August 11th. Deceased was 21 years of age, and a barge builder by trade; he was formerly employed at Salterforth but for some time before joining the army had worked at Liverpool. He had been in France about 4 months.
Rifleman Harold Hargreaves, a Barnoldswick comrade in the same regiment, who enlisted at the same time and whose home is directly opposite, was killed about two months ago.
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14 July 1916
BARNOLDSWICK CASUALTIES
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hargreaves, 5, Denton Street, Barnoldswick, received an unofficial intimation last weekend that their son, Rifleman Harold Hargreaves, 1st 5th King’s Liverpool Regiment, had been killed in action in France on the 2nd inst. The sad news was conveyed in a letter from a sergeant in the same regiment. Rifleman Hargreaves was only 21 years of age, and had been in France about three months. He was formerly employed as a barge builder at Salterforth, but had lived in Liverpool about a year before he enlisted, following the same occupation there. He has another brother aged 25 in the West Yorkshire Regiment now in France.
08 September 1916
BARNOLDSWICK CASUALTIES
Mr. J. J. Rigby, 40, Gisburn Road, received a War Office intimation last weekend that his son, Rifleman Wm. Stewart Rigby, King’s Liverpool Regiment, had been killed in action on August 11th. Deceased was 21 years of age, and a barge builder by trade. He was formerly employed at Salterforth, but for some time before joining the army had worked at Liverpool. He had been in France about 4 months. Harold Hargreaves, a Barnoldswick comrade in the same regiment, who enlisted at the same time, and whose home is directly opposite, was killed about 2 months ago.
A memorial service was held at the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday evening, conducted by Rev. W.A. Eyre and Mr. B. Butterfield. The organist (Mr. J.W. Abbott) played the ‘Dead March’ at the close.
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