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Surname: HARGREAVES
Forename(s): Maurice
Place of Birth: Crosshills, Yorkshire
Service No: 201709
Rank: A/Corporal
Regiment / Corps / Service: Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
Battalion / Unit: No.2 Coy 1/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion
Division: 51st (Highland) Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1917-11-20
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 10.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: CROSSHILLS, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: STEETON-WITH-EASTBURN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Maurice Hargreaves was the son of Alice Hargreaves (born Eastburn, c. 1875), the daughter of Smith and Ann Hargreaves, née Clough. Smith was born at Cowling and Ann at Eastburn, Yorkshire.
1901 Glusburn, Yorkshire Census: 5, Hargreaves Street - Maurice Hargreaves, aged 5 years, born Crosshills, Yorkshire, grandson of Ann Hargreaves, widow. [Maurice's mother, Alice, was living at the same address.]
1911 Eastburn, Yorkshire Census: 12, Sun Street - Maurice Hargreaves, aged 15 years, born Junction, Crosshills, Yorkshire, grandson of Ann Hargreaves. [Maurice's mother, Alice, was living at the same address.]
Maurice, along with four friends from Eastburn and Junction, attested for service with the 3/4th Bn Seaforth Highlanders on the 22 November 1915 at Bradford - their names are: Cpl Thomas Teal (4656, 201708); Pte Eshton Hargreaves (4658, 201711); Pte Walter Shuttleworth (4655); Pte Cameron Wilson (4654, 43056) (q.v.).
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: A/Cpl Maurice Hargreaves, 4657, 201709, Seaforth Highlanders.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: A/Cpl Maurice Hargreaves, 201709, 4/Seaforth Hdrs. Date and Place of Death: 20-23/11/17 in action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother - Alice. £13 3s. 3d.
Maurice is commemorated in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.
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, Corporal Maurice, aged 21, Seaforth Highlanders, formerly of Eastburn, killed in action France.
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A/Corporal Maurice HARGREAVES
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 51st (Highland) Division
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07 December 1917
HARGREAVES – Killed in action on the Western Front during recent operations, Corporal Maurice Hargreaves, Seaforth Highlanders, formerly of Eastburn, aged 21 years.
07 December 1917
EASTBURN SOLDIER’S SACRIFICE
Last weekend the many friends in Eastburn and district of Corporal Maurice Hargreaves learned with sincere regret that he had fallen in action on the Western Front, during operations in which his battalion of Seaforth Highlanders took part. The news was conveyed to the relatives of Corporal Hargreaves, who reside in Sun Street, Eastburn, by Mrs. John Teale, who had received a letter from her son, Thomas Teale, who was in the same regiment. During an advance the Sergeant Major of their company had seen Corporal Hargreaves fall, shot down by machine gun fire.
In a letter received since last weekend Corporal Teale states that he had been unable to gain any reassuring information, and regrets the loss of so faithful a pal as he had lost. Both were on leave and at Eastburn six weeks ago, joined up together two years ago, and were of a quintet of local young men who all at one time, November 1915, joined the famous Highland regiment. He was 21 years of age, a fine young fellow, and was a warp twister at Eastburn Mill previous to enlisting.
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