Harris E E 2nd Lt 6th Attd 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers
LIEUTENANT ERNEST EDWARD Royal Irish Fusiliers, was the third son of the Rev. and Mrs. Frederic William Harris, having been born at Burton Latimer, Northants, in 1877.
Educated at the Bedford School, he left at the age of seventeen to enter a stockbroker’s office. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1900, and later a partner in the firm of Harris and Co., of 21 Birchin Lane.
As soon as war was declared, he offered his services as a special constable and acted in that capacity until September 1915, when he joined an Officers’ Training Corps. On obtaining his commission in the following month in the 6th Royal Irish Fusiliers, he was sent to Belfast for further training.
Later he took a course of signalling and obtained a first-class certificate. He was appointed a Signalling Instructor at Dublin, remaining there until March 1917, when he proceeded to France to join the 1st Battalion of his Regiment.
On 11 April he went into action at Roeux, and when his company retreated he remained behind to attend to a wounded brother officer. In doing this he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He was conveyed to Zulich Hospital, where he died of septic poisoning on 21 April.
He was beloved and respected by all who knew him, being to many a generous and kind friend.
Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918