Harold Arthur Daines

A Lance Corporal with the 20th Hussars, Harold died on 7th of November 1918 aged 23. 

Harold was born at Lowestoft in 1895, a son of Charles William and Sarah Ann Daines. He was baptised at Saint John’s Church on 18 January 1895 and his family lived at 38 Stanford Street, and this was still their home in 1901. In 1911 they lived at 12 Saint Margaret’s Plain, and later at 18 Cleveland Road. 

Harold enlisted in the Army at Norwich around March 1914. He joined the 20th Hussars and arrived in France, with his regiment, on 16 August 1914. 

On 7 November 1918 the 20th Hussars passed through infantry holding the Dompierre-Cartignies Road and advanced to a line about one mile west of Avesnes-sur-Helpe where they found a continuous line of German machine-gun positions. At this point the infantry caught up with the regiment and patrols were sent out. During this advance Harold and one officer were killed and seven men wounded. 

Harold was buried at map reference 57.A.N.33.a.5.2. and after the war he was reburied at Fontaine-au-Bois around 10 miles away.