Name
Edward Keith Harker
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/04/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HARINGHE (BANDAGHEM) MILITARY CEMETERY
II. F. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted Collegiate School, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Edward Keith Harker was born in 1897 in Hendon, Middlesex, the son of Edward and Annie Harker and one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Woodridings, Pinner, Middlesex, where his father was working as an engineer stores contractor. By 1911 they had moved to 108 High Street, Berkhamsted and his father was then working as a mercantile clerk.
He was educated at Berkhamsted School, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 10 December 1917 and served as 2nd Lieutenant with the Special Reserve Royal Garrison Artillery attached to the Royal Air Force.
Edward was with No. 10 Squadron, based at Droglandt (Droogland), near Poperinghe, Belgium in 1918 and flying as an observer in an Armstrong Whitworth FK8, when it was hit by machine gun fire from the ground. He was wounded and died two days later, aged 20, on 18 April 1918, from wounds received.
He is buried in Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
Probate granted to his father on 27 January 1919 with effects of £236 10s 2d. His father received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £103 12s 4d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.greatwarforum.org
