Harris E E 2nd Lt 6th Attd 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers

Posted on 30 July 202330 July 2023 by WW1 Photos

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

Harper E Pte 492503 28th Attd 13th London Regiment

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Harper E Pte 492503 28th Attd 13th London Regiment

LANCE CORPORAL EVELYN HARPER 2/13th London Regiment, was born at Woodford, Essex, and educated at Bancroft’s School, Woodford Wells. He lived all his life in Woodford, where he was well-known and very popular. In 1904 he became a member of the Stock Exchange.

He joined the Artists’ Rifles in August 1914, and was afterwards attached to the “Kensingtons,” going with them, in the famous 60th Division, first to France, then to Macedonia, and finally to Palestine.

In a dawn attack on the Turks on 7 December 1917, he was wounded and lay for half a day on the ground half frozen before he was picked up and taken by slow stages back to Cairo. Here he died on 28 December.

Writing just before his last action an old schoolfellow of his said: “All the boys speak well of Harper, of his coolness and unselfishness; if he expects dirty work, he leads the way himself rather than run others into danger.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Tayler E H 2nd Lt 1st York And Lancs Regiment

Posted on 29 July 202329 July 2023 by WW1 Photos

Tayler E H 2nd Lt 1st York And Lancs Regiment

TAYLER, ERIC HARDWICK, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of Archdale Tayler, of Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, (-), dau. of J. G. Culpan, of Auckland; and grandson of the late Rev. Archdale Wilson Tayler, of Leeds, England; b. 15 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; St. John’s College, Taniaka (where he held a Maria Blackett Scholarship), and Auckland University College. He received a commission in the Coast Defence Detachment of the 3rd (Auckland) Regt., 11 March, 1912, and in March, 1914, sat for the examination open to the Territorial Forces of Canada, South Africa, Malay, and Australasia, for direct commissions in the regular Army. There were about 180 candidates, and Lieut. Tayler headed the list with 3,307 marks, out of the possible 4,500. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the York and Lancaster Regt. 20 June, 1914, and left Auckland two days before the outbreak of war to join his regiment at Jubbulpore, India. From there they were ordered to England and went to the front early in 1915. After about a fortnight in the trenches he contracted pneumonia and was admitted to the Clearing Station at Hazebrouck, France, 31 Jan. 1915, and died 9 Feb. following of double pneumonia; unm.