Name
Harold Mason Gleave
21 Dec 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/03/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
"A" Coy. 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn.
"A" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEM FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, HEM-MONACU
I. H. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Harold Gleave was born in Croydon, Surrey to William Richard Gleave, Chartered Architect, and Lois Gleave (nee Mason).
By 1901 The Family was living in Nottingham, where his father formed an Architectural Practice.
Harold was presumably attending Nottingham University College OTC when he was mobilised at Plymouth on 15 Aug 1914 as 2nd Lt. with 3rd Batt. Sherwood Foresters.
Wartime Service
He went France 4 Jan 1915.
He was promoted Lieutenant in Jan 1915, and in July /Aug 1915 he suffered Gun Shot Wound (thigh) and was treated at Queen Alexandra’s, Millbank. He returned to His Regiment in France July 1916, having been promoted to Captain.
He was killed in action and also Mentioned in Dispatches 6 Mar 1917
Biography
Additional Information
W R Gleave, "Hillcrest", The Park, Thurgarton, Notts. ordered his headstone inscription: “GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
