George Henry Harbord

A Private with the 10th Battalion, George died on 3rd of September 1918 aged 19. 

George was born at Oulton in 1899, a son of George and Jane Harbord. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 16 August 1899 and his family lived at Hope Cottage, Hall Lane. George joined the Great Eastern Railway in December 1913 and in 1917 he was a stoker at Lowestoft (Civil Engineering Department) and he joined the National Union of Railwaymen on 14 September 1917. 

George enlisted in the Army at Ipswich on 19 April 1918. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 51840. He was transferred to the Essex Regiment, service number 44869, and posted to the 10th Battalion in France. 

There is no record of where, when, or how, George was wounded. The fact that he is buried at Dernancourt suggests that he died at one of the Casualty Clearing Stations based there.